MANILA, Philippines - Get a dose of art, photography and cinema in a week teeming with visual stimulation. On June 9, Silverlens Gallery opens “Being There 1946,“ an exhibition of selected snaps taken by Teodulo Protomartir, also known as the father of Philippine photography. Featured are black and white prints of Manila attempting to find normalcy despite the wounds of war.
The Ayala Museum meanwhile lends its ArtistSpace to recent paintings by Lynyrd Paras. The painter’s fourth solo show, “Some things are not meant to be beautiful,“ lines up portraits of Filipino youth trapped in a tangle of emotions as they face the demands of adulthood.
Emotions similarly run high in the works of two dozen young artists that form “Rebuke,” a show taking place at the freshly minted Outer Space Gallery. Curated by Recci Bacolor, the pieces are an attack “against society’s ills and the various cancers contributing to our downfall.”
Screening until June 13 is the 15th edition of the French Film Festival at the Shangri-La mall. The French embassy brings a selection of recent Francophone hits and classics including two award-winning family dramas: La graine et le mulet (Secret of the Grain) by Abdel Kechiche and L’Heure d’été (Summer Hours) by Olivier Assayas.
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The details
• Silverlens Gallery 816-0044, 265-0873 www.silverlensphoto.com Alliance Francaise de Manillewww.alliance.ph 895-7585, 895-7441 Ayala Museum www.ayalamuseum.org
757-7117 to 21 local 32
• Outer Space Gallery The Collective, 7274 Malugay Street, Suite B, San Antonio Village