Exhibition

Profile

• Born 1957 in Buenos Aires, Argentine. Based in Buenos Aires, Argentine.

Silvia Rivas is recognized for her video-installation, performances and the articulation of objects in space, she is considered a pioneer inter-disciplinary artist in Argentine and Latin America. Since the nineties, she has incorporated various supports and technologies according to its metaphorical potential for investigating the concept of time and the human condition. Rivas seeks to generate concrete experiential associations, conjuring reflections that are at once universal and situated. In her vision, an attitude of tenacious resistance, firmly applied to their perception of the present moment, is the subject’s resource facing a turbulent context. Her work problematizes the presumed realism of the moving image in order to reflect on the power of the audiovisual storytelling, to wonder about the images and their references. She has numerous group and individual exhibitions in art institutions and her works belong to several national and international private and public collections.

Selected exhibitions

2024

Solo exhibition, Cronotopias, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (Colombia)

2010

Solo exhibition, Zumbido, Contemporáneo 26, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

2005

5th Mercosur Biennale: Direções no Novo Espaço (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

2004

Solo exhibition, Everything from the outside, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

2003

8th Havana Biennial: Art with life, Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center (Cuba)

• “Buzzing Dynamics” (video still) 2010