March 9 - April 30, 2023 By Force of Nature expands Clar’s decades-long practice of working with light- and screen-based technologies to interrogate the slippages, impositions, and mistranslations that condition life lived in a global diaspora. He incorporates industrially produced materials, animal life, and documentary technique to stage a complex narrative about the weight that identity carries both in Filipino sociality and in the diaspora’s perception of it. The works speak to the uneven translations that occur when the feats of an “individual”—a concept as ubiquitous as it is overdetermined in American culture—becomes imperfectly visible to a populous for whom such a concept is only ever determined in relation to one’s local community, region, or family.