MANILA
POKLONG ANADING
lumalalim sa kababawan, lumulutang sa kalaliman
20 November– 20 December 2025
Opening Reception: 20 November, 5 – 8 PM
Silverlens Manila presents lumalalim sa kababawan, lumulutang sa kalaliman (deep in the shallows, afloat in the depths), Poklong Anading’s fifth solo exhibition at Silverlens, opening Nov. 20, 2025.
From the Lubi Art Residency Program in Davao de Oro all the way to its first iteration in his exhibition in New York, Anading mingles upcycled materials with new art expressions. His works combine the discoveries from his diving forays with volunteers and marine biologists led by dive master Iñigo Taojo of Davao Gulf Divers, their initiatives to restore coral reefs and their habitats, and his own exploration of materials to produce work. His new exhibition conveys the “resurfacing” of some of the realities and materialities derived from the depths and nature’s encounter with consumption and artificiality.
“The exhibition demonstrates the artist’s conceptual approach while using different media—objects, video, photographs, and drawings—all derived from his diving expeditions in Lubi. One of his main aquatic hauls—the “ghost net,” used to catch fish and later to prevent the trash from being swept to a nearby resort—had grown its own colonies of barnacles, baby corals, and algae as it sat on the seabed, threatening to inflict further damage on other marine life. Anading has turned the process of removing and renewing these abandoned nets into their new form as synthetic corals, as an homage to the life forms they disrupted, and as a large sculpture to accentuate the paradox of the situation—one that also uncovers the nature of art: interventions of man-made objects against a world that ultimately intervenes with everything that is man-made.”—Cocoy Lumbao Jr.
lumalalim sa kababawan, lumulutang sa kalaliman by Poklong Anading runs until Dec. 20, 2025 at Silverlens Manila.
Carina Santos. ‘Solstice’ (2025)
CARINA SANTOS
Eight Views From The Border
20 November– 20 December 2025
Opening Reception: 20 November, 5 – 8 PM
Silverlens Manila presents Eight Views From the Border, Carina Santos’ first solo exhibition with the gallery.
“Born to a family of painters, Santos took the long road to the visual arts, taking productive if stubborn detours through graphic design, advertising, and journalism as a way to carve out her place in the world. In those mediums, she distinguished herself with a quietly idiosyncratic style: a graphic designer likely to take a collage-like approach to a magazine layout, a visual communicator who preferred liminal spaces, a culture writer skeptical of easy answers. Ultimately, Santos followed those disparate paths to artmaking.
“Eight Views From the Border is a kind of culmination of this journey. Featuring eight of her so-called “pour paintings”—evocative abstract paintings that employ material, gesture and chance to conjure up memories of terrains and skies—the exhibition sees the artist working with a new confidence, revealing a hard-won new language for painting that harnesses all the learnings from her past lives while taking the long view on her practice.”—Raymond Ang
