SILVIA
RIVAS

Momentum

Solo exercise I, from the series Momentum, 2015.

About the series

Defining the instant before any given event as a potential unit of time, one in which conventional timekeeping grinds to a halt, evoking the impeding frailty of the moment, stretching it, holding onto its fleeting nature.

A moment as intangible as a thought or a decision, but preceding it... It is a moment measured by its ephemeral and dramatic resistance.

In vain, we try to control the course of our lives. Maybe, our potential is manifested as an experience, the precise moment just before the outcome, a vertigo condition, the sensation of waking up falling.

Works

Solo exercise I

Video installation | Single channel. HD video. Variable dimensions. 1′ 35′′ loop. 2015

 

Video still.

Delay

Installation |Single channel. HD video. 125 pieces of Limoges porcelain 19 x 19 cm. Polycarbonate screen 240 x 120 cm. Variable dimensions. 0′ 24′′ loop. 2015

Detail.

Retard

Installation | Single channel. HD video. Carrara marble. 200 x 200 cm. 0′ 24′′ loop. 2015

Detail.

Dureé 2

Video installation | Four video channels. HD video. Variable dimensions. 1′ 22′′ loop. 2015

Detail.

Dureé I (on paper)

Photography | Gliclée print on cotton paper. 25 x 140 cm each. 2015

Drop-fall

Video installation | Two channels. HD video. Variable dimensions. 0‘ 16″ loop. 2015

Video still.

Girl

Video installation | Two or three channels. HD video. Variable dimensions. 0‘ 03″ loop. 2015

Video still.

Decision 2

Video installation | Single channel. HD video. Variable dimensions. 0‘ 58″ loop. 2015

Exhibitions

Tocar el tiempo. Casa de las Culturas – Villa Carmen. Tigre, Buenos Aires, 2018

Después del futuro. Imágenes para recomponer la relación sociedad/naturaleza. Museo de Bellas Artes de Neuquén. Curatorship: Florencia Battiti y Fernando Farina. Neuquén, 2019

Después del futuro. Imágenes para recomponer la relación sociedad/naturaleza. Museo de Bellas Artes de Neuquén. Curatorship: Florencia Battiti y Fernando Farina. Neuquén, 2019

Premio Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales. Palais de Glace. Centro Cultural Kirchner. Curatorship: Diana Dowek, Diego Perrotta, Marcela López Sastre, Daniel Fischer y María Amalia García. Buenos Aires, 2021

Quiero estar contigo. Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá. Curatorship: Eugenio Viola. Colombia, 2020

Monocanal. La piel como límite. Centro Coreográfico Canal. Curatorship: Mario Gutiérrez. Madrid, España, 2021

Focus – Photography. Diana Lowenstein Gallery. Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos, 2021

Sección Sitio de ArtBo. ArtBo. Bogotá, Colombia, 2018

Process

Credits

  • Performers: Valentina Azzati and Gustavo Lesgart
  • Body dramaturgy direction: Gustavo Lesgart

Migrations in contemporary art
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Hotel de Inmigrantes, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, 2015.

Momentum
Rolf Art, Buenos Aires, 2015.

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