Regina Silveira: Depth

Regina Silveira's work in Poland is practically unknown. Born in 1939 in Porto Alegre, the artist was professionally associated with the Faculty of Communication and Fine Arts of the University of São Paulo from 1974 to 1993, where she obtained a doctorate and the position of professor. Silveira showed her works at over eighty individual exhibitions and over one hundred and fifty collective exhibitions. Her work is known primarily in Latin American countries, where outside Brazil she exhibited her works in Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Guatemala and Puerto Rico. The artist also had many exhibitions in the United States (New York, Huston, Washington, Chicago, Portland, Philadelphia, Miami, Austin, Honolulu). In Europe, her achievements are less well known, so far she has shown her work in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Hungary. The show in Atlas Sztuki is the premiere presentation of Regina Silveira's work in Poland.

The artist prepared a special project for the Atlas Sztuki, in which she took into account the architecture of the gallery building and its surroundings. She created two installations named Depth I 1001 days, in which she entrusted the main role to the windows of the building, which are the membrane connecting the interior of the building with its exterior. Playing with the architecture of the exhibition space has been present in the artist's work for years. The illusion of space, light and shadow, time and its passing are very common aspects of Silveira's work. In Atlas Sztuki she created two different installations - one related to running time (1001 days), the other is oriented to the space of the exhibition hall (Depth), although the apparent abyss-hole also evokes an archaeological idea of time. 

In the exhibition catalogue, we publish two texts on the work of Regina Silveira by a Brazilian - Dr. Teixeira Coelho and a Spaniard - Adolfo Montejo Navas. We also publish a transcript of an extensive conversation with the artist conducted by Dr. Tomasz Załuski. Conversations bringing us closer not only to her work but also to the work of distant South America. 

I cordially invite you to the Atlas Sztuki to experience how the virtual depth created by Regina Silveira disrupts our perception of space and causes a feeling of anxiety and how the infinite sequence of days and nights of the installation 1001 daysAnd disrupts the normal way of perceiving the room of the gallery room and transports us to an open and boundless space.