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Corinne de San Jose Every Girl I Know, 2022 100 cyanotypes 7.87h x 5.91w in • 20h x 15w cm (each) My first gallery visit of the year was at Silverlens Galleries. I loved Corinne de San Jose’s Lazy Projectors. I loved the careful piecing together of information and imagination as the artist tried to follow the barely surviving trails of Dalagang Bukid (Country Maiden), said to be the first feature film produced and directed in the Philippines by a Filipino. De San Jose’s cyanotypes are delicate and picturesque, and the exhibition was an arresting study of a film now widely considered lost. I was not partial to the soundwork (4-7-8, 2022), though. I felt that the whole process of visualizing could do without it given the consistent visual characteristics of the prints and image projections.

Painting, Differently, curated by Isa Lorenzo: Mit Jai Inn, Nicole Coson, Aditya Novali

Silverlens CNN Philippines Life

The new location of Silverlens Galleries — still along Pasong Tamo in Makati — reopens this month. The gallery is home to some of the most acclaimed names in the local art scene including Maria Taniguchi, Gregory Halili, Martha Atienza, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, and Ryan Villamael.