Pacita Abad: Love is Like a Heat Wave: Silverlens Galleries, Manila

Love is Like a Heat Wave celebrates the 20th anniversary of Circles in My Mind, Pacita's landmark exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The exuberant exhibition would serve as the final presentation of the artist’s work, before her passing in 2004.

The works in the show are part of a series of works on paper produced during her residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI) in 2003, where she explored her longstanding interest in colour and material culture, through the boundless possibilities of papermaking, printmaking and painting.

Rounding out the exhibition are Pacita’s rarely exhibited floral oil-on-paper monoprints created during her residence in Jakarta in the late 1990s. Layers of delicately applied oil paint transferred onto paper, these compositions possess a tranquil tenderness that juxtaposes the ravenous abundance of most of Pacita’s oeuvre.