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Paghabül sa Antique: Weaving Memory and Museum
In 1986, Antique Governor Evelio Javier was assassinated in the province’s capital, San Jose de Buenavista, an event that remains central to the province’s collective memory. Today, the exact site of his death faces the former provincial capitol, now rebuilt as the National Museum of the Philippines San Jose de Buenavista. Its inaugural exhibition, Paghabül sa Antique opened in July 2025 and is the sixth iteration of Hibla ng Lahing Filipino, recognizing Antique…
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On Notes for Exaltation (Excerpt)
“We are born knowing,” Chati Coronel writes in her artist statement for Notes for Exaltation, her ninth solo exhibition with Silverlens. Coronel is known for her multi-layered paintings created through a process she refers to as Figurative Spatialism. Here, she paints layers of abstract movement in raw strokes and contains them in a color space that forms a human figure’s silhouette. Her work is informed by a wide range of…
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On Gathered Narratives (excerpts)
Gathered Narratives saw the work of husband Soler (b.1960), wife Mona (b.1962), and their three children Luis (b.1985), Carina, (b.1988), and Isabel (b.1990) together in a single exhibition for the first time. Presented in the old Silverlens space in Pasong Tamo, the exhibition showcased the current bodies of work of each member of the Santos family at the time. […] Another way to see Gathered Narratives is the relationship between one artist’s practice to the other: for one, are the layers in…
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Angel Stinson 