SILVIA
RIVAS

The Reverse of the Armor

 

Exuviae, of the series The Reverse of the Armor, 2021.

About the series

To what extent do we coincide with the forms we invent? Are they emanations of our being or only the product of our doing and acting?

How do we live the statements of the times from our fantasy and individual culture, from our living matter?

To what extent, as matter, are we penetrated by or alienated from the objects and environment we produce? With exhausted salvation strategies that will inevitably leave us exposed?

By exploring material qualities of plasticity, resilience and fragility, with emotional and psychological states, an attempt is made to investigate our resources and capacity for resistance in the face of situations of extreme vulnerability. The intention is to make visible the tension between the inevitable tearing of what shields us and the desire to preserve its image and integirity intact.

It is about enacting mental images with the intention of pointing to these questions from the subject’s point of view, their unrest, and their fears.

Through the convergence of mediums and materialities, the work delves into our integration as natural beings with the environment and transformed matter.

This dialogue of materialities and mediums, with its formal and technological resources, becomes evident as a poetic in itself.

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Works

Exuviae

Video installation | Three-channels. Intervened tissue paper screens. 4K video. Stereo Sound. 4' 5" average in loop. 2021

Detail.

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Thus Our Own

Video installation | Variable channels. LED screens and double T-iron beams of 2200 x 420 cm. 4K video. Stereo sound. 2' 30" average in loop. 2021.

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The Reverse

Video installation | Single channel. 4K video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 1' 14" loop. 2021.

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The Armor

Object | Blacksmiths's pliers tissue paper, linseed oil. 60 x 25 x 0.32 cm. 2022

Thus Our Own (photography)

Photography | Still of video. Inkjet printing on Hahnemühle paper. 47 x 24.7 cm. 2022

Neither I, Nor Body, Nor Instrument

Performance | 2021

In collaboration with Belén Parra, Amalia Tercelán and Lara Stilstein.

Exhibitions

Premio Fundación Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat. Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Buenos Aires, 2021

Process

Credits

  • Performance: Brenda Guidetti y Teresa Sevilla
  • Choreography direction: Cecilia Bazán
  • Production and coordination: Mayra Ferreyra Basso
  • Production and assembly: Cecilia Paganini
  • Sound Design: Rocío Morgenstern
  • Costume: Belén Parra
  • Photographic register: Daniela Mac Adden and Juan Pablo Ferlat
  • Special thanks: CheLA

The Reverse of the Armor
Fundación Andreani, Buenos Aires, 2022.

Credits. Performance: Brenda Guidetti, Tere Sevilla, Cecilia Bazán. Production and coordination: Mayra Ferreyra Basso. Realization: Cecilia Paganini. Costumes: Belén Parra. Sound design: Rocío Morgenstern. Special collaboration: Juan Pablo Ferlat. Acknowledgements: CheLA.

Cronotopias. Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO),  Bogotá, Colombia, 2024.