Nora Silva
MA work
MA work
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The Arms sketch, Nora Silva 2017
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The Arms
The Arms is a pub to be installed as a - sculpted or not- context for performances and events to take place within. By using the strategy of the pub as a ready made, the subjectivities are confronted and confused between the ideology of the gallery, the school and the alcohol social house. The public will have access to a fully functioning pub, where the exchange of value and service has an apparent transparency. However, the ambiguities of the regulations of the exhibition space will be confronted with the work. The Arms will host events like a 'Life in the UK Quiz' or a Céili dance and will also have continued non-time specific performances like a mum breastfeeding her child or a constant nut eater.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Humanities
Programme
MA Sculpture, 2017
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Contact
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+44 (0)7960 784398
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I am interested in addressing political issues through the informality of jokes and the seduction of the uncanny. I question how art can be useful and if it should be useful at all, and consider the potential of each piece, how it can be activated or if it works better when it’s passive. There is an useless space of art which is treated as sacred and where everything is possible, like a game, like a carnival. Defining political by its Greek etymology which refers to its collective sense: ‘the process of making uniform decisions applying to all members of a group’, my practice is intimately linked to the social.
I am interested in making pieces that allow a confrontation within themselves, that are possible and impossible at the same time and that challenge their own stability.
I am driven by constructing contexts that enable addressing political issues. I often use gestures of irony, contradiction or frustration. I question how aesthetics might become a space-maker, and how can it confuse the educated eye. How do we deviate art with all its baggage to a sense of art-like? Might art be more effective as an adjective?
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Degrees
- BA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art; BA Fine Art, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Chef Diploma, Westminster Kingsway College
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Experience
- Events coordinator, GALLERY WEEKEND MEXICO , Mexico City 2013; Arts journalist, CÓDIGO MAGAZINE, Mexico City 2013; Workshop coordinator, Immigrant Movement International, New York 2014; Development assistant, Independent Curators International, New York 2014
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Exhibitions
- Lost Senses, Shonibare Studio, London 2017; House Work, 53 Beck Road, London 2017; Hear Me Whisk, LaJuan Gallery, Madrid 2017; Exchange of Spaces, Camden Art Center, London 2017; The Dose Makes the Poison, Carousel, London 2017; VR Exhibition, ICA, London 2017; Kitschen, IKLECTIK, London 2017; 48 Hours, Contemporary Collective, London 2016; Food in Practice, The Lebanese Saajeria, Amsterdam 2016; Juliet Sings to Romeo, Victoria Balcony, London 2016; A Bar for Purists, Chelsea Fringe Festival, London 2016; Hello You, Temporary art Projects, Southend-On-Sea 2016
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Awards
- David Villiers Award; Cowley Manor selection; Gilbert Bayes Trust
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Conferences
- The Gramounce, Art-World Innovators, The Roche Court New Art Centre, 10.10.2016; Art Entrepreneurs, Turf Projects, September 2017