SEA Focus 2025 'Pacita Abad & Pio Abad': with Silverlens Galleries, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore

For its first art fair of 2025, Silverlens is pleased to return to S.E.A. Focus with a duo presentation of Filipino diaspora artists Pacita Abad and nephew Pio Abad, marking the first time they are presented together in Singapore.

The presentation features a series of prints Pacita Abad (b.1946, Batanes, Philippines – d.2004, Singapore) produced during her three-month residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI) in 2003. The artist, alongside print and paper-makers at STPI, translated her rich visual language onto paper-based media and processes.

Complementing the presentation are ink on paper drawings by Pacita’s nephew and estate curator, Turner-nominated artist Pio Abad (b.1983, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in London, England) who examines the personal and political entanglements of and within objects. Deeply informed by unfolding events in the Philippines, his work emanates from a personal family chronicle woven into the nation’s story.