#CalleWright turns 1! #BlurQueen (Believes Again), or A Cut Below the Open Sea book launch February 23, 2019 4-6PM SATURDAY CALLE WRIGHT, 1890 VASQUEZ ST. MALATE, MANILA Ongoing exhibition school of love Lani Maestro 7 December 2018 - 3 March 2019 Please RSVP Another question: Can objects and images, encountered only via images, become a text, be a book? We know a book is an object. Can objects constellated and contained inside a distant and now abandoned Filipino domesticity—its modernist rooms a forsaken promise of modernist utility, one now exchanged for another, later aesthetic order, that of the local contemporary art institution, one that holds objects that will never be experienced or comprehended or handled by your author—be an essay, a story? That’s a truer question, closer to the ambitions here. We don’t have space for everything. - #QuinnLatimer Calle Wright is celebrating its first birthday this month with a book launch: Blur Queen (Believes Again), or A Cut Below the Open Sea by Quinn Latimer! This book was published on the occasion of our inaugural exhibition, #NeverisaPromise by #HemanChong and #GaryRossPastrana. Blur Queen (Believes Again), or A Cut Below the Open Sea was made possible with the cooperation of Bookmark, Inc. and the Singapore Embassy in Manila. We hope to see you there! #SilverlensGalleries #Manila #Malate #ThePhilippines (at Calle Wright) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuJO8ZLFQdk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iphppae4kvk7

#QuinnLatimer's new #book published by @calle.wright has arrived today in our offices @silverlensgalleries! #BlurQueen (Believes Again) or A Cut Below The Open Sea is @ql_ql_ql_ql's proxy reading of #NeverIsAPromise, the first show at #CalleWright in #Malate #Manila by #HemanChong and #GaryRossPastrana in 2018. Look out for it! Special thanks to @isalorenzomanila and @rach_rillo for being such wonderful hosts for our show, our book and our time. And for creating such a great space in Manila. Grand thanks to our producer @aczm for being patient with my deranged rants and 24/7 emails. (at Calle Wright) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtNLcNPlaOa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gc6su6uczyox

#WuTsang and #QuinnLatimer and #WeDrankSoFuckingMuchYesterday #Wdw #Rotterdam #TheNetherlands (at wijnbar het eigendom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnjCl2PB5UG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vy09oqv7na2m

What a treat tonight! Two favourite people in one room! #QuinnLatimer #WuTsang (at Rotterdam Centrum) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bne3MVTB5t0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12kk15hcerzki

It only seems like #yesterday when my gallerist @stephfong33 proposed that I make a show with #GaryRossPastrana to @isalorenzomanila and @rach_rillo of @silverlensgalleries. It was one of the most #memorable #exhibitionmaking #processes ever. Working with Gary @collage_a_day_everyday was immensely rewarding as we were somehow able to #think through each other's work via our own practices without coming into any kind of #consensus about what to show or what not to show. The resulting show surfaced out of that #complexity as well as the generosities we have given each other. Our exhibition in #Malate #Manila closes this weekend. I am very sad to see it go but also very happy that it has had such a long exhibition run, filled with very strange public programs like Gary's idea of screening #Lost in reverse haha what a #mindfuck. Go and catch the show this weekend if you haven't seen it. A #book is due to arrive soon in the near future! We are not in a rush to finish it and it will take as much time as it needs and this is the real legacy of Calle Wright: that we finally can just take our own time. It is the last act of #NeverIsAPromise and is a contribution by the wonderous #writer and #poet #QuinnLatimer @ql_ql_ql_ql. I am very much looking forward to it! #HemanChong (at Calle Wright)