Digital Collage Print Cut-Outs of Queer Porn Images. Butterfly templates from butterflies indigenous to the Philippines.
Framed in Shadow Box
Manapul’s multidisciplinary art practice and research examines eternal displacement, complicated by colonialism, sexual identity, diasporic bodies, global identity construction, and the Eurocentric Western hegemony. Focusing on the hybrid nature of Filipinx culture through post-colonial realities, and the gaze of queer identities as taxonomy. Excavating narratives specific to diaspora queer bodies and the loss of motherlands. Hybrid images question the problematic side of queer communities that uphold homonormativity & homonationalsm.