Family Spaces
Stella Kalaw
January 8 - February 7, 2009
Opening reception on January 8, Thursday, 6pm

Silverlens Gallery welcomes 2009 with a photography show by United States based
artist Stella Kalaw. Over the last fifty years, the Filipino diaspora has
altered the landscape of families and the relationships that bind. Kalaw, having
left the Philippines over ten years ago, returns to show Family Spaces, a series
of photographs of her immediate family members' homes all over the world.
Continents apart, each home is a glimpse of interconnectedness through objects
of the everyday Filipino. Worn tsinelas on a stair landing, a tabo floating in a
balde, the Sacred Heart of Jesus--all markers of Pinoy identity, they are
umbilical cords to the familiar. The color photographs present cultural identity
through markers that belong to one extended family, but stand in for any
Filipino family anywhere in the world.

Stella Kalaw (b. 1969 in Manila) graduated with a degree in Professional
Photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography in California, under a Fuji
Scholarship and worked as an intern in Irving Penn’s Studio in New York City
shortly after. Kalaw has been part of group shows in Washington, New York,
California and at the Ayala Museum in Manila. Her works have garnered awards
such as a Honorable Mention in the Polaroid International Awards and the Gold
Prize in American Photo Magazine’s New Views Awards.

Family Spaces by Stella Kalaw opens at 6pm on January 8, Thursday and runs until
February 7, 2009. There will be an Artist Talk by Stella Kalaw on January 10,
Saturday, from 3-5pm. Family Spaces will be shown along with Library Bookworksby
Renato Orara at SLab (Silverlens Lab).

Silverlens Gallery is at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati,
816-0044, 0905-2650873, manage@.... Gallery hours are Monday to
Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.




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