The installation, Everyone’s Prison (2019), by Marc Aran Reyes was inspired by Jorge B. Vargas’ post-war confinement in Sugamo Prison, a material that the artist unearthed while scouring Vargas’ archives for inspiration.

Using old wood sourced from abandoned and demolished houses for an installation that is inspired by the prison cell where Jorge B. Vargas was confined. The artist contemplates history as accretion, and he ties it to the function of museums and archives as a trove of data and privileged memory. An overarching theme of trancendence ties all the seemingly disparate ideas being explored.

Everyone’s Prison is a featured installation at the Adoracion Valencia Gallery, 3rd Floor of the Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art.