Silverlens returns to Art Basel Hong Kong, 25–29 March 2026, with a presentation that brings together artists whose practices have defined contemporary art in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Across Booth 1B12, Kabinett, and Encounters EN10, the Manila and New York based gallery articulates a dialogue between historic and current positions, foregrounding formal rigor, material innovation, and critical acuity within an international context.

In her paintings, one finds both geomancy and geometry, DNA spirals and Daoist talisman, electromagnetic grids and qi-energy network. For Cheng, knowledge ancient and modern are equivalent tools for creating a grammar and an artistic language showing how humans may speak to the cosmos and communicate with the world at large.

Liu researches immigration case files from the Port of San Francisco, each containing the same fabricated story—women coached with scripted accounts of being born in San Francisco, visiting China, and now coming home. Their ability to enter and stay in the country depended on their invisibility. Here, Liu paints portraits that refuse us the face. Instead, we encounter the backs of women’s heads.