Regina Silveira

Regina Silveira is a multimedia artist, engraver, painter, and teacher. With different languages, her work explores themes that go through the composition of the image, the reinvention of representation, power, and politics. One of its characteristics is reinvention. From the questioning tone of traditional painting, Regina becomes one of the references in stimulating the revitalization of art with her illusionist perspectives breaking architectural environments and with drawings and paintings that distort the original space. “Paisagem” (landscape) 2021, a labyrinth formed by 59 transparent glasses measuring approximately 100 m2 and 2.50 m high, all marked by images of shots appropriated from the printed media, as a testimony to the daily violence we experience. With drilling and simulation of shrapnel carried out by digital procedures for printing and burning the glass, the 12 models of shots are strategically distributed throughout the glass labyrinth, to avoid being duplicated. All are placed at the same height (1.40 m), an allegedly generic measure capable of guaranteeing that they were experienced as more “accurate” shots... The work was initially shown at the 34th Bienal de São Paulo in 2021, before its deployment at Usina de Arte, in early 2022. The labyrinth often appears in Regina’s work, which is a way for her to talk about sharing, to create itineraries with, since the 1970s, the idea of ​​​​representing violence. It is a political work that she has been developing since the years of the dictatorship. In ’paisagem’, she selected a collection of 12 different images of gunshot impacts that she found in the Brazilian daily press. They are distributed in such a way as to never see the same one and allow the visitor walking into the work an experience of violence. But for her, the work remains phantasmagorical and artificial, even more so in its new context in the open air in the landscape of the Usina de art. Regina Silveira (1939) born in Porto Alegre, lives and works in São Paulo.