TOUCH is an intervention that bears a strong connection to architecture and urban spaces, and is part of a significant number of projects in the public space by Regina Silveira. It aims to go beyond the boundaries between art and everyday urban reality. Its graphic nature is applied directly onto the facades of four cultural institutions: the Recoleta Cultural Centre and the Access Pavilion to the Memory Park in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Memory in Rosario and the “Franklin Rawson” Fine Arts Museum in the city of San Juan.
The handprints in TOUCH operate as large human generic marks cut out from adhesive vinyl. The handprints were obtained in various workshops conducted by the participating institutions. Both TOUCH and the workshops aim to express ideas concerning appropriation and belonging, and were originally created for the project Travessias-Arte Contemporânea na Maré in Rio de Janeiro in September 2015, as part of the project Observatorio de Favelas. Both the intervention TOUCH and the workshop (TOUCH HERE) are expansive projects as they can work as diversifying matrixes in other contexts.
The trope of the video installation Limiar is light and the meanings of immanence. Whether as words –in different languages- or as a phenomenon, light can always be seen in the sequence of images. Limiar is a luminous stain that is endlessly and infinitely configured and de-configured.
The word light alludes to its own luminous nature - therefore operating as a tautology of language - and also to the word as a whole, for the sequence of various languages denotes other geographies. This video expands on a previous version that was exhibited as a sound video installation in loop in a small, almost closed room at the 12th Curitiba Biennial in 2015. The spectators were able to see and listen to the video without going into the room. They could only peep into the room through a small opening.
The format of the video installation Limiar is akin to a metaphor of the body, as the sound track resembles strong breathing, which is coordinated with the luminous dissolution effect of each word.