Silverlens presents new work by important Southeast Asian artists I Lann Yee, Isa Lorenzo, and collaborating artists Corinne De San Jose and Christina Dy at Paris Photo 2013.

A Sabah-born Malaysian, I Lann Yee (b., 1971, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia) explores colonial photography in her new series Picturing Power. Connected by culture, history, and fluid borders but set apart by a complicated colonial past and identity struggle-- Yee mines archival images to construct the relationships between colonizers and the colonized, and makes a position for the identity politics and reclaiming history.

Isa Lorenzo (b. 1974, Manila, Philippines) presents First Responder. Photogram collages using disparate historical images as jump-off points for the state of current global political affairs. At first look, they are all depictions of “first responses”. There is a fight. There is flight, a resistance, a forward movement. But the unusual juxtapositions and the microinformation one finds in the images form ambiguities that invite viewers to unravel the narratives.

New Pairs by Corinne De San Jose and Christina Dy (b. 1977, Bacolod City, Philippines and b. 1976, Manila, Philippines) is a series of photographs of cast sculptures of de San Jose’s body parts overlaid with origami constructions. Hands, face, feet—Greek statues, but lifelike and relaxed— are lit neutrally, stark. Devoid of context, the intersection and resulting disjunction between the forms, between flatness and volume, between anatomy and ornamentation, present alternative portraits.

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Image: © Isa Lorenzo