Regina Silveira
By Charlotte Stace
Brazilian multimedia artist and leading figure in Latin American and international conceptual art, Regina Silveira was one of the first to experiment with new technologies for reproducing and circulating images. She is most known for her work with light, shadows and distortions exploring ideas of reality.
Over the course of more than six decades, her work has focused on analysing, critiquing and dismantling conventional systems of representation. Since the 1970s, she has questioned the possibilities of visual perception and of perspective through aberrations, anamorphoses, simulacra and paradoxes. Full of irony, her graphic, audiovisual, performance and three-dimensional projects offer a commentary on the past, question the status quo and envisage other possible realities and futures.
The exhibition, ‘Destructions of Power’, encompasses much of Silveira’s artistic research, experimentation and production. It includes a large body of the work made during the Brazilian civilian-military dictatorship (1964–85), a context of censorship, violence and repression.