Silverlens Manila is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Marina Cruz, Fractured Fabric, opening Saturday, 4 October 2025, with a reception from 5 to 8 PM. Fractured Fabric ultimately celebrates the scars of the fabrics – their holes, frays and blotches. Cruz sees in them a kind of beauty: traces of her family’s endurance and care, with all their vulnerabilities.

For this exhibition, Pacquing continues to explore the transformative nature of everyday materials, in particular the complex quality of concrete when manipulated on canvas. It is a substance traditionally used in building structures, denoting a monolith resisting environmental stresses.

The lines in Etsuko Nakatsuji’s paintings do something strange. They wind, bow, curl, geometrically precise yet emotionally unguarded. They wink at the aesthetics of advertising, with their pop colors and graphic blocking. The result lands somewhere in the shape of a person, or at least person-ish. Possibly a mythological specter or a beloved cartoon character? Perhaps both, and something more?