Paisaje a definir – Silvia Rivas

Landscape to Be Defined

Migrants, of 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. DV Video. 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, Florida, United States, 2010

Centenario Roggio Visual Arts Award. Emilio Caraffa Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, Córdoba, Argentina, 2008

Landscape To Be Defined (Migrants) Art Gallery Jolie Bistro. Curated by Fabián Trigo. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012

Reality and Utopia. 200 Years of Argentine Art: A Vision from the Present. Academy of Arts of Berlin, Pariser Platz venue. Curated by Diana Wechsler. Berlin, Germany, 2010.

636. Six Rivers, Three Countries, Six Artists. Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC). Curated by Mario Fonseca. Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2008.