Filipinas in history as Superheroes? Oh yes. See them reimagined in an exciting new exhibit in Quezon City! #FightLikeGirls!

Alas ng Bayan 2.0 is a riveting new contribution to an exhibition series celebrating the unbroken line of Filipina heroism in our people’s past, from the 19th century to the present.

First launched in 2019, the Alas ng Bayan exhibit is a history-through-art initiative of the Constantino Foundation in cooperation with the Tandang Sora Women’s Museum and 350 Pilipinas. The exhibit seeks to reintroduce the Philippine past and femtinism as young Filipinos respond to the worsening state of national forgetting, maldevelopment, and the climate crisis. The exhibit hopes to generate interest in sectors not normally active in national and social issues by offering notions of citizenship, nationhood, and activism in the face of multiple emergencies hammering the country today.

Alas ng Bayan 2.0 is a reinterpretation by the artist Billy Pangilinan of the five heroes first depicted in 2019, using tarot cards as the thematic frame. Five Filipinas are reimagined by Pangilinan in Alas ng Bayan 2.0 as the main characters in superhero comic book covers mounted on five separate 4 x 5.7 ft frames. The work is dazzling, compelling, and provocative. It features Gregoria “Lakambini” de Jesus, Apolonia Catra, Remedios “Kumander Liwayway” Gomez-Paraiso, Lorena Barros, and Gloria Capitan. Viewers of the exhibit will encounter parallels between the lives of the heroes depicted and their intersection with topics under intense public debate, such as violence against women, LGBTQ+ rights, extrajudicial killings, global warming, and national sovereignty.

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