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Silva’s work demonstrates her interest in language and classification systems, the artist’s recent body of work has come out of a long period of travelling for residencies and projects, characterised by moving across geographies and her experience of contemplative isolation. The different locations have become an important site of production and have added diverse technical possibilities to her ways of working. The large-scale canvases are topographical portraits, a synthesis of the form and the content of her experiences. The works become an accumulation of thoughts, gestures, and actions, which imply performance and controlled chaos. They are compositions made using frottage, a system for letting the matter emerge from underneath the canvas, which is unstretched on the floor. This happens either through scratching chalk over the little protrusions of the floor or naturally through the weight of water poured on the fabric, on top of the folds of the plastic sheets underneath, whereby the canvas retains the shape of these actions.
Caterina Silva works across painting, performance and video. She explores the links between power and language from silent or pre-linguistic places, in order to elude canonical structures of the production of meaning. She uses painting to probe at the obscure spaces of the mind, those which are impossible to explain in words, but which exist and materialise into matter and then object. The artist creates open images available to the interpretation of the observer, a consequence of a process of deconstruction of her own internal superstructure carried out through the matter of painting itself and its translation into choreographic experiments and performances. The artist combines this with her interest in non-power, which she describes as trying to master randomness and to exercise the least power on the image that wants to emerge. She explores this feeling of powerlessness and discomfort, because it creates an openness towards her surroundings and shifts the artist’s attention from herself to a non-self.
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