SILVIA
RIVAS

About Imminent

 

Imminent Harm, from the series About 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 where one can guess a luminous outdoor green vegetation.

 

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 seeks to define the moment prior to any event as a possible unit of time, a unit in which the conventional measure stops.

Video still.

About Imminent I

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

Video still.

Delicacy

Installation | Porcelain, 12′′ HD LCD screen, HD video. Stereo sound. 23 x 28 x 24 cm. 7′ 35′′ in loop. 2017

Wealth

Installation | HD LCD screen 12′′, HD video, currency of the Argentine Republic. 23 x 28 x 24 cm. 7′ 35′′ in loop. 2017

Detail.

Abundance

Installation | Porcelain, 12′′ HD LCD screen, HD video, coins from the Argentine Republic. 23 x 28 x 24 cm. 7′ 35′′ in loop. 2017

Detail.

Conclusion

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

Exhibitions

Tocar el tiempo. Casa de las Culturas – Villa Carmen. Tigre, Buenos Aires, 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.