Joshua Serafin's work attempts to break through boundaries created by Western ideas about humanity, gender, the past, present and future. The artist combines indigenous knowledge with a vision of the future, based on a desire to restore balance to the planet. Their performances, films and installations bring together research into gender, indigenous knowledge and nature. In the rituals and location-specific performances that Serafin develops, the body reconnects with the earth, the spiritual world and the cosmos.

For On Limits, a selection has been made from Joshua Serafin's image archive, which forms the basis of the ongoing work Cosmological Gangbang. This has resulted in works such as VOID (2023) and Creation Paradigm (2023).

Cosmological Gangbang depicts a speculative future in which the imposed ideologies of colonial patriarchy have given way to older, more fluid and freer ways of being. The main sources of inspiration for this work are the spiritual origins of Filipino society and culture. Pre-colonial gender traditions, passed down orally from generation to generation, play a role in this. One of the aims of Serafin's art is to disseminate this local knowledge more widely.

The video installation Creation Paradigm depicts three gods who represent three different worlds and aspects of life: Uling, God of light and darkness; Talu, God of self-reflection; and Waling-Waling, God of euphoria and love. In dreamlike images, these gods come together in the world of the ancestors, where patriarchal and colonial laws do not apply and where people hark back to primeval times.

The work Void depicts the creation of a god(dess) for the future. This god, Void, is forced to live in the mortal world in order to learn what it means to be a god(dess) of this time. The choreographies of Void depict the sadness, pain and suffering of our current society.

The photographs in the display cases show images of the final installations in which the performances form a relationship to a specific place and the audience. A fragment of Creation Paradigm can be seen on a screen. The photographs on the wall offer a glimpse into the working process and the creation of the final work. We see fragments of the natural environment, performers in their personal surroundings and performers in the studio with clothing and props that bring them into contact with other dimensions.