Rillo to open ‘Manila’ photo exhibit

Rachel Rillo will be opening her photography exhibit, metaphorically called “MANILA”, on February 13th, 6pm, at the silverlens gallery. It is her second exhibit after being the inaugural show at the warehouse space the photography gallery moved into in September 2006.

Her photographs are intimate in size, drawing the viewer in what would otherwise be a common sight. Rillo, returning last year from the United States, continued shooting the wires project she started abroad some three years ago. But in Manila, “the more I looked the harder it was for me to see anything else. The wires were the perfect metaphor for the chaos shrouding the city.”

The images are emotional; alternately funny and somber, gentle and violent, delicate and tensile. The deliberate exclusion of buildings and clouds must have made for a funny sight while Rillo was shooting. 

Her viewfinder framing, physically dodging all other evidence of viral urban growth shows the exquisite that is above us if only we care to see.

Rachel Rillo, “MANILA”, February 13 – March 8, 2008, silverlens gallery, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City, 816-0044. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10 am – 7 pm, Saturday 1 – 6 pm. Accompanying “MANILA” are Saturday Gallery Activities, all from 3 – 5 pm: Feb. 16 – Man Ray Film Showing, Feb. 23 – Rachel Rillo Gallery Talk, March 1 – John Silva on Manila Art Talk, March 8 – 

Edson Cabalfin Art Talk on Colonial Architectural Images of Manila.

Visit www.silverlensphoto.com for more info or email manage@silverlensphoto.com.