WE THE PEOPLE

“Now more than ever we need to stay inspired,” says Solenn Heussaffon an Instagram post showing a piece from her most recent exhibit, Kundiman. She says that her art is meant is to honor by way of depicting social reality and seeing people for who they are as is shown in this piece titled “Within Reach 2030.”

But, as with all artists, sometimes creation is met with criticism and just discussion, as was the case when Heussaffposted a photo of herself sitting in front a painting along an impoverished Metro Manila street. Many online called her out for apparently using “poverty as an aesthetic.”