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.
This current collection of work is the result of a three month residency in the Post-Museum in Singapore. 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.
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