Kahayupan

This MFA exhibit revolves around the notion that animals have been used as bisual metaphors for commentary of society’s ills. From the European Medieval Beastiaries, or bound text featuring stories teaching morality to the modern political cartoons of utilizing animal figures to liken either the brazen to the problematic, this MFA study aims to produce a visual sequential narrative of presidential faults reminiscent of Christianity’s Seven Deadly Sins. The seven presidents starting from the Marcoses reflect the duration of administration the proponent has lived and is living through to juxtapose the personal and the political. The proponent is a practicing political cartoonist, hence the MFA study shall be rendering magnification of comics strips-type of narration, wherein each panel holds a deadly sin and their causalities and implications. Though each panel is inherently separate and can stand alone, the MFA study aims to render these panels as a disturbing panorama of interconnected blighted political landscapes that we have gone and we are going through.