Sherwin Rivera Tibayan
1. Untitled (Austin, TX), 2023
2. Untitled (Cedar Park, TX), 2022
3. Untitled (Indang, Cavite, Philippines), 2024
4. Untitled (Indang, Cavite, Philippines), 2024
5. Untitled (Las Vegas, NV), 2009
Archival pigment prints from the Tsinelas Series, Printed in 2025.
Courtesy of the artist

This work is on loan for the exhibition, Living Here, at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, June 20 - December 20, 2025

“Tsinelas is a Tagalog word from the Spanish chinela and translates to slipper,” writes Sherwin Rivera Tibayan. “A common sight in many Filipino and Asian households, I am interested in recording the myriad visual and material qualities of these slippers and considering what these varieties might suggest about their owners and the lives they live. I also want to preserve how they gather and accumulate at the thresholds of doors, hallways, and areas of transition within domestic spaces. For me, they have come to reflect the sometimes messy but always meaningful ways we show and share our individual selves and group identities in the worlds we make at home, and serve as indirect family and group portraits of Filipino Americans, both in the US and in the Philippines.”