Until 12 June, the Ministry of Culture and Sport is presenting the exhibition Pilipinas Ngayon at the National Museum of Anthropology, in keeping with the philosophy of the Let’s Turn the World Around cycle, which aims to give a voice to Philippine society in order to contrast its current self-definition with the colonial and past vision offered by the collections from the General Exhibition of the Philippine, Caroline and Mariana Islands of 1887 at the Retiro.
This counterpoint is created in collaboration with two renowned Filipino photographers, Xyza Cruz Bacani and Geloy Concepcion. Their work is integrated into the space dedicated to Philippine culture in the permanent exhibition, as has already been done in the African cultures room with the Afrotopia project: printed works in different formats and two audiovisuals in which both Bacani and Concepcion comment in more detail on the aspects of their country’s social diversity that they try to capture through their lenses. The combination of their works, one more narrative and documentary and the other more artistic and portrait-like, offers a complementary, suggestive, current and attractive vision of the Philippines in the 21st century.
