Filipiniana. | Philippiniana.

This book contains the author's project conceived and carried out by Juan Guardiola on the “colonial” past and the “global” present of the Philippines, with the purpose of bringing together cultures distanced in time but at the same time previously linked by the historical memory they possess. in common. Filipiniana, both in the book and in the exhibition that was held in 2006, brings together various representations of the identity of this country and is divided into three historical “stories”: the first, under the title of “The colonial imaginary (1521-1945) ”, which ranges from the first Western cartographic representations of the archipelago to the Japanese occupation; the second, under the name “Nation (1946-1986)” projects the art and culture of the second half of the 1986th century at the service of a paradoxical national identity; and, thirdly, the “Memories of overdevelopment (2006-XNUMX)” where the current reality of the country is narrated in an increasingly internationalized and dialoguing society, which no longer corresponds to the hermetic nationalisms of times past.

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