Silverlens, founded by Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo in 2004, has earned recognition from both artists and collectors as one of the leading contemporary art galleries in Southeast Asia. During MIA&D Fair Singapore 2014, the gallery presents two artists : Wawi Navarroza and Yee I-Lann.
Wawi Navarroza’s latest series Tierra Salvaje questions the ‘wild landscape’ via a material inversion of space and scale that constantly shifts in between the detached clarity of photography and expressive abstraction. Navarroza presents ten new and small-scale photographic works that combine abstracted ‘dirt/earth drawings’ that are juxtaposed and physically layered on top of prints of her landscape images. Re-photographing these unique collages, the resulting work destabilizes the fixed nature of photographic surfaces as well as creates an esoteric interrogation of the common ground that connects us to the land, through soil itself.
Wawi Navarroza is a visual artist/professional photographer based in Manila, Philippines. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from De La Salle University, Manila and attended courses at the International Center of Photography, New York.
Her work with contemporary photography has taken shape in highly-stylized symbolic mise-en-scène and tableau vivants to her more recent interest in the head-on dead pan recording of still life and the everyday sublime. Her return to landscape focuses on “Place”, mapping out heterotopic sites that exist in nature and in urban spaces, which are then relocated into photographs and constructed further by future memory and/or amnesia.
Malaysian Yee I-Lann shares elements of the Filipino culture in her works, particularly of the crafts and stories of Sulu, the land at the opposite shore from where she lived. Her photographs are not just reconstructions of reality but a construction of memories—in search of history, in search of identity through an unsure landscape, the presence of borders and the unending horizon of the sea, which is the border that each of us share. A border that is unmarked and is limitless.
Yee I-Lann (b.1971, Sabah) graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993 with a major in Photography and a minor in Cinematography. I-Lann has gained recognition internationally for her distinctive photomedia-based practice which seeks resonances across history, landscape, memory and cultural identity. Her Picturing Power series was exhibited at Paris Photo 2013 and more recently at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York. I-Lann also works as a production designer for feature films. She currently lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Silverlens Galleries (Manila and Singapore), through its exhibition program, artist representation, art fair participation and institutional collaboration, aims to place its artists within the broader framework of international contemporary art dialogue.
Artists represented include Maria Taniguchi, Patricia Eustaquio, Gary Ross Pastrana, Luis Lorenzana, and Yee I-Lann. Recent collaborations include the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila, Vargas Museum Manila, Singapore Art Museum, and New Museum in New York City. Silverlens participates annually in key international art fairs.
MIA Fair: Singapore
24-26 October 2014
Milan Image Art Fair Looks to Singapore for its International Expansion
http://www.miafair.it/singapore/
Informations
Silverlens Gallery
47 Malan Road #01-25
109444 Singapore
Tel / Phone +65 97823013
Email [email protected]
http://www.silverlensgalleries.com
