State of Flux is a group exhibition that examines the concepts of shapeshifting and humor as protective adaptations to geopolitics and the perils of contemporary existence.

The exhibition links four intergenerational and mixed-gender artists who use abstraction to confront the precarious and uncertain state one experiences when bracing for impact. Emulating the tension felt before breaking, the exhibition examines the inevitable and reactive violence of nature and technology, the result of trauma and stain, and the region’s universal reaction to danger, fear, and stress.

In this new body of work for Silverlens New York, Martha Atienza asks, ‘Who owns the land? Who owns the sea?’. These are questions that persistently come to her mind when working with her home community across the Bantayan group of islands, north of Cebu in the Visayas, the Philippines’ central island group.

Many languages meet for presentation: the digital pixel and the tikar weave, traditional and contemporary motifs, popular song, bodily gesture and sound, photographic image, and script. These position art-making and aesthetics as a means of bridging and understanding diverse experiences and stories.

Silverlens is thrilled to present pieces by three widely collected artists from Southeast Asia: Mit Jai Inn, Pow Martinez, and Maria Taniguchi, marking the gallery’s first participation in The Armory Show. This presentation coincides with the inauguration of SILVERLENS’ New York gallery space located at 505 W 24th Street in Chelsea.