Silverlens Galleries

SAN FRANCISCO: The SFAC presents Dream Jungle, a group exhibition featuring the seminal work of the late Carlos Villa (1936–2013).

Taking its title from Jessica Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition interrogates the “imagined tropics” and the complexities of imperial representation. Villa’s practice, rooted in decolonial aesthetics and spiritual resurgence, serves as a ceremonial anchor for the show. His inclusion highlights a career dedicated to recuperating Filipino art history through feathered capes, body imprints, and ritualistic performances that bridge indigenous Pacific traditions with contemporary resistance.

DREAM JUNGLE
📍 SFAC Main Gallery 401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 126
29 January – 2 May 2026

📸 Installation images courtesy of the San Francisco Arts Commission

MANILA: Jenifer K Wofford explores the colonial history and fluid abstraction of the basketball court in the group exhibition PLAY, on view through 16 May.

Arjun Appadurai writes of imagination as a key aspect of social life that works to shape spatial realities and sensibilities, the potency of which even impels and compels collective movements, dissent, and transnational migration, as well as other ways of seeing, dwelling, and place-making. He imagines the world as a world of flows— referring to the movement of things, ideas, and people across the globe— and terms these flows as ‘scapes,’ interestingly evoking the notion of place. 

Following this lens, we might conceive of place-making as the work of imagination and a combination of these flows—  rendering place not as a static space, but one that is dynamically constructed, perhaps even a site of play.

Words by Pie Tiausas

🔗 Learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio.

MANILA: PLAY opens today.

A group exhibition featuring works by Jenifer K Wofford, Jake Verzosa, and Aze Ong, with a reception from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

If a place gathers, what or who is it that gathers to culminate it? And is a place simply what people make of it?

In this exhibition, three artists probe collective notions of place and place-making as a postcolonial spatial reality. Doubly evoked through the ubiquitous spatiality of the basketball court, play becomes salient to the postcolonial imagination. 

Words by Pie Tiausas

🔗 Learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio.