SILVIA
RIVAS

About the Imminent

 

Imminent Harm, of the series About the Imminent, 2014.

Works

Imminent Harm

Video installation | Two channels. HD video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 3′ 12′′ in loop. 2014

A dish of milk on a white linen tablecloth, the breeze barely moves the white curtain wehind which a luminous, vegetal outside world can be glimpsed.

 

The buzzing of a fly is foreseen as a threat in the quietness and purity of a still life scene. The imminence of this threat aims to define the moment prior to any event as a possible unit of time, a unit in which conventional measurement halts.

Video still.

About the Imminent I

Video installation | Single channel. HD video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 1′ 58′′ in loop. 2014

Video still.

Delicacy

Object with video | Single video channel. 12" LCD screen, porcelain. HD video. Stereo sound. 7' 35" loop. 23 x 28 x 24 cm. 2017

Wealth

Object with video | Single video channel. 12" LCD screen, coin of the Argentine Republic. HD video. 7' 35" loop. 23 x 28 x 24 cm. 2017

Detail.

Abundance

Object with video | Single video channel. 12" LCD screen, porcelain, coins of the Argentine Republic. HD video. 7' 35" loop. 23 x 28 x 24 cm. 2017

Detail.

Conclusion

Video installation | Single channel. HD video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 7′ 41′′ in loop. 2015

Exhibitions

Touching Time. Casa de las Culturas – Villa Carmen. Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018

Ensayo General #7. Ensayo General. Curatorship: Olga Martínez. Buenos Aires, 2014

Silvia Rivas, Video installation
Paseo de las Artes, Palacio Duhau, Park Hyatt, Buenos Aires, 2017.