Alingawngaw ng Katahimikan

When the air trembles with noise, silence bears the heaviest burden. It is not absence but the sedimentation of the unsaid and the gathering of what has been deferred. Echoes of Silence unfolds as a field of suppressed narratives in translation, where quiet becomes a fragile architecture for stories too brittle to survive the violence of speech.

The works assembled here – paintings in oil and acrylic, sculptures in wood and resin, embroidery and prints, assemblages and mixed media – are not inert objects but lived articulations and charged surfaces that breathe through the fissures of society. They hold within them the tremors of a nation’s unfinished struggle, and the unrelenting shifts of a people negotiating hunger and survival against the granite walls of power. These works do not merely trace the shadows cast by authority, they illuminate structures of poverty that partition lives, as well as the invisible boundaries that carve privilege from dispossession.

To enter this space is to listen, not with the ears but with the eyes. Each piece hums with reverberations that resist erasure, insisting on presence even when language falters. The works here ask: what does silence conceal, and what echoes when its edges are disturbed? Echoes of Silence opens a critical interval where the unspoken acquires material form. It lingers as a counterpoint to speech, and an enduring presence that compels us to reckon with what power seeks to efface.