Paisaje a definir – Silvia Rivas

Landscape to be defined

Migrants, from the series Landscape to be defined, 2007.

About the series

To speak of the Río de la Plata as a surface, as a stage, as a neutral platform.

The river analogous to the plain with which it merges.

To seek to define a landscape of attraction and shelter or, later, of danger and rejection.

To define it by its minimal geometry that only catches the eye in the very light trace of the horizon, by the color of earth melted in water... or by the reverberation of the light crying what it hides in the soft texture of the plane.

Half earth, half water, a sad mantle that covers names and blurs the traces of a battlefield, a fertile mantle that gave more than expected. A temperate home where, at times, it becomes difficult to feel at home.

The ubiquitous and flickering outline of the horizon is only ahead, it responds to the poles of violence, of refuge, of depletion and abundance. The horizon is direction and certainty, a line behind which inevitably lies a livable reality. Petals rain down, like thousands of individual stories.

Video still.

Works

Migrants

Video installation | Two channels. Video DV. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 2′ 19′′ in loop. 2007

River II

Photography | Inkjet printing on photographic paper. 53 x 152 cm. 2008

River VII

Photography | Inkjet printing on photographic paper. 53 x 152 cm. 2008

Exhibitions

Landscape to be defined. Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Estados Unidos, 2010

Premio Centenario Roggio de Artes Visuales. Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa. Córdoba, Argentina, 2008

Paisaje a definir (Migrantes). Art Gallery Jolie Bistro. Curatorship: Fabián Trigo. Buenos Aires, 2012

Realidad y Utopía. 200 años de arte argentino: una visión desde el presente. Academia de las Artes de Berlín. Sede Pariser Platz. Curatorship: Diana Wechsler. Berlín, Alemania, 2010

636. Seis ríos, tres países, seis artistas. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC). Curatorship: Mario Fonseca. Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2008