A first New York solo presentation that has run since 10 September reaches its final day on 24 October 2026 at David Kordansky Gallery's Chelsea space. The World Tangled in You, by Maia Cruz Palileo, gathers new paintings in both large and small formats, and it marks the gallery's first time showing the artist's work in New York.

Palileo's project has been building for two decades around a single knot: the relationship between a family's passage from the Philippines and the much longer history of migration, colonial violence and negotiated identity that surrounds it. The paintings draw on archival photographs and documents connected to the Philippine-American War, but they do not behave like history illustrations. Research sits alongside intuition, so a canvas can feel at once documentary and dreamlike, with personal memory and geopolitical history occupying the same surface.

The exhibition's title, borrowed from a poem by Shirley Ancheta, captures that method. Rather than untangling its subjects, Palileo lets them stay tangled: joy and confrontation, aesthetic pleasure and stark historical fact, the intimate scale of a family story and the vast scale of empire. Painting, in this account, becomes a way of rewriting the record in the present tense, adding feeling and speculation to what archives alone can show.

The closing date gives the show a last moment of visibility in a crowded autumn calendar. For audiences who missed its September opening, the final weekend offers a chance to see a practice that treats history not as a sealed past but as a force still shaping how families remember, move and belong.