“Disentangling and exposing issues such as the entertainment business, advertisement, bigotry, racism, and mass consumerism, they explain through Herzog's text that “Everyone feels like this little penguin, running away from the crowds, seeking for their places of belonging, saying a general fuck you to the patterns and mechanisms that participate in numbing the seriousness of what is going on in the world today.”
“...Playing with the viewer’s gaze, her use of dramatised doe eyes hypnotises us, urging your to keep on looking and decipher her romances. Duong’s caricatures are reminiscent of her daily life and should be read like a visual journal. She intentionally exposes the fragility, beauty, and raw tenderness of her subjects. Each canvas representing another accurate depiction of individuals in non-idealised positions.”