Today is the opening of The (Dis)Embodied Filipina: Fashioning Domesticity, Weaving Desire, a new exhibit at the Pacific Asia Museum. Guest curated by Pearlie Rose Baluyut and Agnes Bertiz, the exhibit runs through February 2010. The curators will be welcoming viewers today between 4 and 6 pm.

The (Dis)Embodied Filipina: Fashioning Domesticity, Weaving Desire explores the images of the early- to mid-20th century Filipina as civilized and wild. Through the juxtaposition of mannequins wearing the terno with ethnographic portraits appropriated from memoirs, travelogues, anthropological surveys and postcards, the exhibition addresses the material and spectral appearance and absence of women in the Philippines.