REGINA SILVEIRA Unrealized / Não feito

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Emphasizing Silveira’s ongoing formal experimentation and conceptual interventions in architecture, the works on view provide an overview of site-specific installations and public art projects that were never realized in physical space.Developed in many cases with detailed schematics, preparatory drawings, digital renderings, and physical models, all of the projects in the exhibition encapsulate the artist’s ongoing engagement with the distortion of space. Perception, for Silveira, is a malleable playing field, in which the artist’s imagination plays a critical role. Informed in part by the democratic virtues of horizontal pedagogy, she focuses on the ways in which the public uses common spaces. Most of her large-scale installations are temporary, highlighting ephemerality and reproducibility in her use of materials.The exhibition features projects that span more than three decades and expansive geographies. Ahead of her time in her use of technology, Silveira began to utilize plotter-cut vinyl and other digital means in the 1990s as flexible materials that allow for large-scale architectural interventions.