Silverlens is pleased to present Renato Orara: Entangled Pairs, a major cross-continental exhibition of the artist's work, staged simultaneously across Silverlens' Manila and New York galleries.

Entangled Pairs consists of 100 lifelike ballpoint pen drawings of everyday objects: a glove and a plastic water bottle; a teapot and a hammer; a tomato and a butternut squash. These consecutively-made renderings are paired and split from their counterparts across two continents. The exhibition format embodies the concept of quantum entanglement—the phenomenon in which energetically intertwined particles are inextricably linked regardless of spatial or temporal distance and "the closest thing to magic that can happen in physics".

Orara's drawings in this body of work only realize their full potential once exhibited across geographically separated spaces, here split thousand of miles apart across Silverlens' New York and Manila galleries. In splitting these pairs across continents, the galleries themselves become entangled and invite audiences to reflect on and reconcile the dualistic ways in which we see ourselves and our world. By using the parallel of quantum entanglement, Entangled Pairs tugs at the invisible threads that bind and loosen our notions of self, relationships, space, time, simultaneity, reality, while transporting us to that "space that we never visit".

Renato Orara (b. 1961, Bicol, Philippines; lives and works in New York, USA) is an artist recognized for his creations using a ballpoint pen on paper. His drawings portray objects devoid of their context, meaning, and narrative, surpassing the limits imposed by language and material constraints. With a conceptual foundation rooted in interventions and public performance arts in Manila in the 70s, Orara resurfaced from an eight-year Zen meditation hiatus to embark on a renewed career with the use of ballpoint ink. Over time he reintroduced concepts into his art, branching out into series of works such as Drawer Drawings, Iraq Memorial, Bookworks, Bloodworks, and Entangled Pairs.

His works are in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, and the Singapore Art Museum. Exhibitions include the US Palo Alto Cultural Center, Hosfelt Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Gallery Joe, OSP Gallery, Joseé Bienvenu Gallery, Leo Fortuna Gallery, the Travelling Gallery, Dominique Fiat Gallery, Alon Segev Gallery, and Silverlens Gallery.