SILVIA
RIVAS

About Imminent

 

Imminent Harm, of 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 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 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

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.

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