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Talåyan Langhet

Sid M. Duenas and Isa Gagarin

Pilele Projects

May 16 - June 27, 2026

Gallery hours Fri/Sat 11-4pm


In this collaborative two-person exhibition, Sid M. Duenas and Isa Gagarin present Talåyan Langhet. Translated literally to sky net in English, Talåyan Langhet evokes an image of a CHamoru talayeru throwing a circular fishing net in shallow ocean waters. Duenas and Gagarin’s work employs the idea of a fishing net as a conceptual framework for their collaboration (which draws connections between their distinct visual and material approaches); it also functions as a metaphor for the fragmented nature of their respective CHamoru-language fluency. In his multi-media work, Duenas builds poetic textual elements including bilingual phrasing and compound words. Gagarin’s recent work plays with the ochosyllabic structure of kantan Chamorrita, composing original songs that accompany her paintings as a way to pursue CHamoru-language thought frameworks in her creative process.

Accompanying Duenas and Gagarin’s exhibition is an open-edition poster produced by Pilele Projects. The poster is a double sided print featuring 48 video stills from their collaborative video piece, also titled Talåyan Langhet. It also includes a folded insert with titles and a copy of Isa Gagarin’s kåntan Chamorrita, I Kinenne’ (The Catch) (2026), which shares its title with the site specific wall drawing that she produced for the exhibition.

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