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Mervy Pueblo / Fearless

January 17, 2015

Culture have been long understood as being part of an economy in producing material goods and services, also social relations. And consumer goods has always been reflective of the social fabric of a community / society. This November at Artinformal, Mervy Pueblo creates a situation with appropriated local material goods, to address identity politics through humour in her solo exhibition entitled Fearless

Fearless is a response to the contemporary social concern wherein the “Pilipino-ness” in the everyday life of a Pilipino is often demanded to be justified. In this exhibit, Pilipino-ness is subversively exoticized, objectified, and commercialized in attempt to pose questions such as: What is Pilipino? Do rationalizing our racial difference ignite tropes of separatism, and/or otherness? Does it make sense to define the origins of our cultural identity today? To who should we justify our Pilipino-ness, and why?.

Collection of items obtained from the local underground economy are representative of the general domestic beliefs and fears, and the artist recontextualizes them as metaphor to the fear of being “un-Pilipino”. Fearless repacks these concerns to create dialogues and allow audience to rethink about the anatomy of the world, or at least their own political consciousness.

Mervy Pueblo (MFA’ 13)

Artinformal