Rydel Cerezo: New Ending

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Rydel Cerezo, "New Ending," 2021

For Rydel Cerezo, on the other side of failure is a world full of possibility. Taking aesthetic cues from the high-drama emotionality of Filipino soap operas and religious rituals, Cerezo’s new photographic exhibition, New Ending, points to the beauty and awkwardness of failure and the experience of coming of age. 

Deeply personal, the photographs are infused with Cerezo's perspective as a queer Catholic Filipino man navigating desire, cultural conditioning and shame. Through the work, he processes his own entanglement with colonial mentality, religion, and racialized identity.