Regina Silveira

Biography

Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1939.
Lives and works in São Paulo.
Silveira received her PhD in 1984 from Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo. She has exhibited extensively throughout her life, including recently a solo exhibition of her work at Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica, Colombia, in 2007.

Project Description

In Mundus Admirabilis, vinyl is incorporated with screenprinting on porcelain and embroidery on fabric. The installation invokes an allusion to the mythology of biblical plagues, however, instead of locusts, hail, or pestilence, she suggests the existence of plagues in our own time are the images that contaminate our everyday existence: crime and violence, degradation of the environment, corruption, and other ills that invade our lives and psyche.

Mundus Admirabilis, 2008-10
Plotter-cut and digitally printed vinyl
Collection of the artist

Rerum Naturae, 2007-08
Screenprinted transfer and overglaze
on porcelain, hand-embroidered linen
Collection of the artist

*Photo credit: Greenhouse Media