SILVIA
RIVAS

Everything Out There

 

Everything Out There, documentation at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2004.

About the series

Everything Out There is the question, the undefined object, the diffuse wish.

The body is the limit and this limit is the only certain thing.
These are empty moments, there is no event whatsoever, everything is circumstance.

Sometimes the conviction is to play the game indefinitely. The contact of one body with the other is the only reference, there is no reliable surrounding, the balance is precarious, the surface of support abandons, the other one lets go.
The force of gravity hides somewhere and the anchor is the conflict.

Like in the hours of insomnia, there is no mark to trace the path.
And so things are … someone sings to themselves to sustain themselves so that the echo sets the limits of everything that is inside.
Everything Out There irremediably, remains outside. Inside is the abyss and desire, the crackle of anxiety and a song of consolation.

 

Video still.

 

Everything Out There, A Gram of Dust, The Surface Won't Loose, from the series Everything Out There, 2004.

Works

Everything Out There

Video installation | Variable channels and devices. DV video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 6′ 11″ in loop. 2002

 

Video still.

Distortion

Video installation | Single channel. Black tulle screen. DV video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 11' 9" loop. 2004

A Gram of Dust

Video installation | Single channel. DV Video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 14′ 29′′ in loop. 2004

The Surface Won't Loose

Video installation | Variable channels. DV Video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 19′′ in loop. 2004

Black Abyss in a White Landscape

Video installation | Single channel. 12″ monitor. DV video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 7′ 59″ in loop. 2004

Marsh (Structure)

Intervened Photography | Lambda and gouache printing on photographic paper. 2005

Marsh (Succession)

Photography | Lambda and gouache printing on photographic paper. 2005

Exhibitions

Chronotopies.  MUNTREF, Contemporary Arts Center - Immigrants Hotel Venue. Curatedy by Eugenio Viola and Diana Wechsler. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2025.

Chronotopies.  Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá (MAMBO) Curated by Eugenio Viola. Bogotá, Colombia, 2024.

The Victors and the Vanquished. Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires. Curated by Ana María Battistozzi. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014

Intersections. Technology, Nature, Subjectivity. Arte x Arte Gallery. Curated by Jorge Zuzulich. Buenos Aires, 2009

Casa Abierta, Open House Embassy of the Argentine Republic. Curated by Gabriela Salgado. London, United Kingdom, 2006.

Video Integracija – Video Integration. Belef Center. Belgrade Summer Festival. Project author: Gabriel Savić Ra. Spanish selection: Nora Ancarloa y Marga Ximénez. Belgrade, Serbia, 2005.

The Subtle Vertigo of the Image. Parque de España Cultural Center. Curated by Claudia Laudano. Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, 2005.

Nunca Más/Never Again. Natalie and James Thompson Gallery. San José State University. Curated by Graciela Smith. San José, California, United States, 2004.

MAMbA – Fundación Telefónica Prize: Art and New Technologies. Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004.

Everything Out There
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2004.