Artist and art writer Nastia Voynovskaya, describing Javier's show, “Stuck in Reverse", in Berlin,[3] notes: Her immediate sources of references are film and photography.
"Some of her most vivid memories of childhood include afternoon sessions in front of the television watching classics like Knife in the Water by Ingmar Bergman, or local films such as Kisapmata, Itim, Insiang and Himala by Filipino directors Lino Brocka, Ishmael Bernal, whose sensibilities evoke those of old, moody European films.
[2] Ooi notes[2] that the use of religious iconography in some of Javier's work, while "devoid of any affiliation with a particular religion" and aiming at "communicating universal, collective values," is "connected to her own biography, having lived and struggled with the catholic culture in the Philippines."
On the religious iconography found in Javier's Stuck in Reverse exhibition, Godfrey comments:[4]"The Philippines is perhaps now the most staunchly Catholic of countries.
Many Filipino artists are virulently opposed to the Catholic Church’s continued domination of society and respond with blasphemous detournements of its imagery and objects.