Biography
Residing in the UK, Corinne Silva’s (b. 1976) practice explores the use of the still and moving image in suggesting metaphysical space. Her quiet, meditative visual language engages with the potentials and restrictions of lens-based media and the evolving relationship between politics, landscape and art histories.
These themes are developed through video and photographic wall installations that explore the intersection between botanical and urban landscapes. Silva connects ideas of human mobility and porous frontiers to translate and re-construct material landscape, forming imaginary landscapes.
While her work emerges out of late twentieth-century critical and conceptual landscape practices, Silva subverts these visual languages by avoiding both the disinterested gaze and the ‘monumental’ landscape. Instead, fragmentation acts as her language to create new narrative possibilities.
In her video works, Silva explores individuals living on thresholds, caught in transit or stasis. Through the use of allegory and affect, she connects the physical territory with subjective internal landscapes. Narratives of landscape, historical events and personal histories merge in these works, expressed through a layering of image and sound.
Through her installations Silva constructs subjective threshold states, opening up new possibilities to consider the relationship between landscape and inhabitant, between the material and the imaginary, and between visual art and invisible conditions.