The Tramp shares the process of creating collaborative art
The Voice of San Francisco reviews Caguiat Delacruz’s The Tramp.
On view through November 21, 2026, the exhibition brings together a newly commissioned film, installation, painting, and prints, marking the artists’ first institutional exhibition on the West Coast. At its center is a film following the characters Wesley, his dog Chips, and Hiroko (played by Butoh dancer Hiroko Tamana) as they wander through Oakland and Half Moon Bay, reimagining Charlie Chaplin's Tramp for the present moment. The gallery itself becomes part of the work, with deconstructed film sets, storyboards, costumes, and ephemera filling the space, and a VHS transfer of the film that randomly rewinds and fast-forwards so no two viewings are quite the same.
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