Dateline: 25 May 2018, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Second of eight exhibit visits I did in the University of the Philippines; this one fitting to be right next to Toym Imao's ML/Marcos Era critique. The lengthy title of the MFA exhibit of associate professor Jose Santos P. Ardivilla offers a succinct summary: Kahayupan: A Bestiary of Political Animals as Visual Encapsulations in Large-Scale Political Cartoons that Represent the Administrations, Institutions that Enable Corruption and Impunity in the Philippines from 1978 to the Present at the Bulwagan ng Dangal, Gonzalez Hall, UP Diliman in Quezon City. The artist introduced the exhibit: "Politics is a beastly thing. Political cartooning is either trying to pet or poke the animals."
A carousel of seven deadly sins, the politics of the day is characterized as wrath, evidenced by a quote from a Philippine Star headliner "Duterte: Shoot suspects who fight back, make them fight if they don't" *shudder*
[This post is ante-dated: 20180611]
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