After establishing Silverlens as one of the leading galleries in the Philippines, the Manila-based gallerists felt it was the right time to fulfil a longtime ambition, launching a New York outpost (which opened with two solo exhibitions, by Martha Atienza and Yee I-Lann). ‘We didn’t feel so invisible anymore,’ they stated earlier this year, aiming to bring their roster of Filipino and Asian diaspora artists to a wider audience while also bringing attention to Asian-American representation. At a point when larger Western galleries have rushed to open outposts in Asia in recent years, Lorenzo and Rillo are reversing that flow and creating a different network, with several of their artists present at this year’s Aichi, Bangkok and Istanbul triennials and biennials, as well as the Carnegie International, in Pittsburgh, alongside their Manila programme of exhibitions, which this year included a protest-inspired collaborative exhibition by Pio Abad and Stephanie Syjuco, and the bright figurative canvases of Düsseldorf-based Nicholas Grafia.