TOUCH, an intervention project that bears a strong connection to urban architecture and spaces, is part of the remarkable series 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 façades of four cultural institutions: Recoleta Cultural Centre and the Access Pavilion to the Memory Park in Buenos Aires, the Memory Museum of Rosario and the “Franklin Rawson” Museum of Fine Arts in the city of San Juan.
The handprints in TOUCH act like large human generic marks cut out from adhesive vinyl. They were collected from various workshops conducted at the participating institutions. Both TOUCH and the workshops, whose main objective is to express ideas concerning appropriation and the sense of belonging, were initially developed for the project Travessias-Arte Contemporânea na Mar in Rio de Janeiro in September 2015 as part of the project Observatorio de Favela. Both the intervention (TOUCH) and the workshop (TOUCH HERE) are far-reaching projects since they can operate as matrixes for expansions within various contexts.
The trope of 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 deconfigured.
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 loop video installation with sound in a small, almost closed room at the 12th Curitiba Biennial in 2015. The spectators there watched and listened to the video without going into the room. In order to look in, they had to rest their faces on a small opening.
With this video installation format, Limiar is akin to a metaphor of the body since the soundtrack resembles strong breathing in conjunction with the effect of the luminous dissolution of each word.
