when he cries he looks like me explores quilting as care to create a soft archive that preserves and reinterprets intergenerational experiences. Bringing together new and existing large-scale sculptural quilts by mother-and-son artist duo May Gaspay and Mik Gaspay, the exhibition navigates the entangled layers of memory, migration, and family history in a bid for connection that extends across oceans and generations.

Transforming fabric into vessels for storytelling and healing, when he cries he looks like me prompts a collective reflection on the ways familial histories and inherited narratives are cared for and carried forward.

This presentation marks the culmination of the second iteration of the Warehouse Residency, a program launched to provide Bay Area artists at all career stages the dedicated time and space to create conceptually and physically ambitious new work.

Mother-and-son artist duo May Gaspay (b. 1953, Cagayan, Philippines; lives in Palo Alto, CA) and Mik Gaspay (b. 1976, Quezon City, Philippines; lives in Kensington, CA) established their collaborative practice in 2020. Reflecting sites and objects of personal and cultural significance, their large-scale quilted works and installations explore memory, migration, and family histories. Transforming fabric into vessels for storytelling, they translate inherited and shared narratives in an act of preservation and care.