Gregory Halili's works reflects on the cyclical qualities of death, memory and nature. He invites us to take a closer look at our own natures, to search for what binds us. 

Luis Lorenzana explores the devaluation of hard-earned success and the obsession with instantaneity through a series of new works, presented in his brand of pop surrealism.

Malaysian artist Vincent Leong (b. 1979) poses questions about nationalism and patriotism, news and propaganda, history and progress, in a new body of multimedia works.

Re/call/Re/form/Re/master explores the ways in which creative reuse and modes of material transfer produces a frisson of unexpected meaning and a tingle of strong emotion. 

Silverlens presents TABLED by Yee I-Lann, whose prolific photomedia-based practice seeks resonances across history, landscape, memory and cultural identity.

In The First Kiss on Earth, Chati Coronel traces her subject back to its primordial origins, imagining the kiss in a time before language and attempting to frame this crucial moment of union before it was, or could be, set down in words.  The resulting series vacillates between clarity and obscurit...

99%, in its ascent from data to symbol, from figure to image, is the representation of something that is almost whole. It is a picture of fullness that is not quite there yet. It takes its observers across the hard line between completion and the stubborn remainder—the exemption that will not fall...

As every work of art is unique, so are the individuals that are responsible for each artwork. Artists are characters, and are in themselves works-in-progress. These characters, just like their works, are susceptible to an audience’s criticisms, impressions, and varying standards of judgment. These...

Painting and photograph, in this age, have started to occupy the same world when it comes to picturing life. Both cover the same ground that leads into a single view, a framed vista, a captured moment or instance that is bordered by its own silence. They pose as last frontiers for the meditated imag...

Opening Reception: 17 January, Fri, 6-9pm Maria Taniguchi’s work develops from an interest in organizational structures. Her practice evolves in parallel strands. On one hand she narrows down on methodology by utilizing techniques of image processing, series and repetition. Over the past fi...

Maria Taniguchi is an artist who has concerned herself with art as the materiality of the thing-itself. Through this she has explored, almost unrestricted, various materials and objects through forms as diverse as pottery and video. When it comes to the old artistic medium of painting on canvas, her...

Silverlens Gillman Barracks is proud to present Locus, the first solo exhibition of works by Filipino artist Poklong Anading in Singapore. Fresh from a residency in Bandung, Indonesia, Anading (b.1975) will present a suite of recent projects characterized by his seemingly instinctive ability of un...

Recognized for his distinguished talent and sensibility in painting, De Chavez casts bitter metaphors on the society he lives in, suggesting a response to realities through reconstruction and reinvention of narratives, issues, icons and symbols of the times. Nameless Presence is in collaboration wi...

Yasmin Sison and Elaine Roberto Navas paint visual equivalences of Monogashi -- a term unique to Japanese and that which connotes pathos to things ephemeral. Their paintings of flooded kitchens and opened refrigerators ensconce such sentiment to the theatrical interiority of domesticity, specificall...

In Adaptable to New Redundancies, Dina Gadia considers her practice of appropriation and her use and reuse of existing images. Engulfed in pictures and representations of her own making, the artist makes a more conscious effort to articulate her instinctual practice of assembling and stylizing from ...

Words by Lena Cobangbang Mariano Ching makes up worlds that reflect back on its cinematic referrent, as though memories are only retrievable if they are mediated or transmitted by mass/media. This is most enunciated in his previous show Lost Days where he has painted time as a crushing boulder on c...

Silverlens Gallery presents, Melancholy Lover of a Vanished Space, an exhibition of video art curated by Jet Pascua and Tanya Busse of Small Projects. Small Projects is non-profit art gallery located in Tromsø, Norway. It is founded and directed by Filipino artist Jet Pascua. For Melancholy...

JET PASCUA, RYAN VILLAMAEL, and COSTANTINO ZICARELLI at Silverlens in Gillman Barracks, Singapore. Silverlens brings together three Filipino artists whose works represent the new shift in contemporary iconography, exemplified through their varied approach in art-making—through Pascua’s t...

There But Not ThereCurator’s Notes STRIP 2013 brings together the works of three Filipina photographers Corinne de San Jose, Wawi Navarroza, and Rachel Rillo to Silverlens Gillman Barracks from 05-28 April 2013. The exhibition highlights the common persuasion among their works in the re-thin...

Words by Matt Jones“Now this is now.” The phrase, quoted from author David Foster Wallace, was featured prominently in Hanna Pettyjohn’s show The American Sweet (2009). Now, with Bundle, Pettyjohn propels the ascension of this thought, while also marking a departure from her prev...

Excerpt from the Article by Cocoy Lumbao Ley lines, much like constellations, are man-made constructs out of the sheer desire to draw connections and superimpose significance. In ley hunting, a practice which started as early as the 19th century, the objective was to seek out ley lines which were t...

Blurring boundaries between art, craft and design, Patricia Perez Eustaquio's solo exhibition at Silverlens is a showcase of ornately shaped canvasses that play on ideas of motifs and still life, playing on notions of Ornament and Crime. In her solo exhibition Death to the Major Viva Minor at Sla...

Callaghan lights his nightscapes with a mixture of available and strobe lights. He sets up the found, like a hunter setting up light traps for his camera; his is a meticulous and repetitive process. For Stranger (2008), his first complete work of night photographs, he worked with neighborhoods famil...

Luis Lorenzana is a self-taught artist and illustrator who creates his own unique brand of pop surrealist works. He has participated in over 20 group and solo shows in Hong Kong, Germany, and the United States. The artist has also been a finalist for the Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards, the Inte...