Same Same But Different is a collection of new work by Holly Pereira. A result of a three month residency in Post-Museum, Little India, Singapore, Holly Pereira’s work investigates how we create, perceive and maintain identities; cultural, racial and familial. Pereira explores her Singaporean heritage through the lens of half- ang mo (or white Westerner) while investigating notions of female stereotypes, roles and characters, and in particular that of the Asian woman.Holly Pereira’s work investigates how we create, perceive and maintain identities; cultural, racial and familial. Pereira explores her Singaporean heritage through the lens of half- ang mo (or white Westerner) while investigating notions of female stereotypes, roles and characters, and in particular that of the Asian woman.
She is fascinated by the weird, the unusual, and the bizarre. Taking references from German fairy tales, Kung Fu films and the popular press, she creates images that are both disarming and slightly disturbing.
The title “Same Same but Different” refers to a South-East Asian maxim of how cultural differences and divides do exist, but essentially we are all humans; we are all the same.
Same Same But Different
Exhibition run from April 7th - 26th 2009
The Muse at 269,
269 Portobello Road, London W11 1LR
