Quick Pick: Jay Cabalu at The Kube

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Jay Cabalu, “Dorothy,” 2024, hand-cut collage, plastic and organic poppies on wood panel, 36" x 30" (courtesy of The Kube)

A petrified Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. Assault rifles. Vintage Canadian stamps. Cubic Zircona jewelry. Pink stilettos. Diet Coke. A crow, a lion, a skull, a sneaker. 

It takes a while to recognize all the images in Filipino-Canadian artist Jay Cabalu’s hand-cut collage mashups, but it’s worth digging in.

Cabalu’s third solo exhibition, Bunso, opens this week at The Kube in Gibsons, British Columbia. It runs until Sept. 3.

The word “bunso” refers to a Tagalog term of endearment for the youngest child in a family, but here is used to discuss the implications of “a youth-obsessed culture that stagnates maturity within an outdated patriarchal system.”

Cabalu, who immigrated to Canada with his family in 1991, holds a bachelor of fine arts from Kwantlen University and has exhibited work at Queer Asia and with the Foundation for Asian-American Independent Media in Chicago. Last year, his show, POP ODY$$EY, was shown at Deer Lake Gallery. He lives in Vancouver. ■

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