Headlining the month of November at Silverlens are Poklong Anading’s lumalalim sa kababawan, lumulutang sa kalaliman and Carina Santos’s Eight Views From the Border.
Silverlens is concluding 2025 with two of its final shows for the year, featuring the works of artists Poklong Anading and Carina Santos. Both exhibitions will run from November 20 to December 20, 2025, with Anading’s show marking his fifth solo exhibition with Silverlens, and Santos’s being a milestone first with the gallery.
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About lumalalim sa kababawan, lumulutang sa kalaliman by Poklong Anading
Poklong Anading’s lumalalim sa kababawan, lumulutang sa kalaliman (deep in the shallows, afloat in the depths) began to take form during his time at the Lubi Art Residency Program in Davao de Oro, before debuting its first iteration in a recent exhibition in New York. The series emerged from Anading’s diving expeditions with volunteers and marine biologists—led by dive master Iñigo Taojo of Davao Gulf Divers—where he gathered materials from beneath the surface.
These works integrate upcycled elements, a process of “resurfacing” objects and fragments drawn from the depths. Through this material interplay, Anading reveals a compelling portrait of nature’s ongoing encounter with consumption and artificiality.
At the heart of the exhibition are the “ghost nets”: fishing nets once used to catch fish but later abandoned, now posing a persistent threat to marine life. During his dives, Anading recovered these discarded nets and transformed them into synthetic corals, honoring the life forms they once imperiled. The works embody a striking paradox: “man-made objects against a world that ultimately intervenes with everything that is man-made,” as noted by Cocoy Lumbao Jr. in his curatorial commentary.
About Eight Views From The Border by Carina Santos
Though Carina Santos was born into a family of painters, she initially forged her own path in graphic design, advertising, and journalism. Struggling to create hyperrealistic works in the style of her parents left her demoralized, and it wasn’t until her studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, that she began returning to painting, gradually cultivating a distinct voice informed by her varied experiences.
As a graphic designer, she embraced a collage-like approach to magazine layouts; as a visual communicator, she explored liminal spaces; and as a culture writer, she questioned easy answers. These sensibilities later coalesced in her art, which Raymond Ang describes in his curatorial notes as embodying “a placid, meditative approach that leans on a confident manipulation of medium but leaves room for happenstance.”
Eight Views From the Border marks a culmination of her artistic journey, featuring eight of her signature “pour paintings.” These abstract works employ gesture, chance, and material to evoke landscapes and skyscapes, reflecting Santos’s hard-won visual language and establishing her as a compelling new voice in the contemporary art scene.
Eight Views From the Border opens on November 20, 2025 and runs until December 20, 2025. “Lumalalim sa kababawan, lumulutang sa kalaliman” by Poklong Anading will be running concurrently. Silverlens Manila is located at 2263 Don Chino Roces Avenue Extension, Makati City, and is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM.
Photos courtesy of Silverlens.
