Portrait of a pile of paper

Portrait of a pile of paper

I ran my first kilometer

I RAN MY FIRST KILOMETER
Chine ink and acrylic  on paper.
Gerrit Rietveld Academie 2019-2020

A sign In Space

A SIGN IN SPACE //  
Video instalation + drawings + 3D printed objects = media poetry instalation.
Chinese ink on 1.50 m x 10 meter paper roll. 
Si.Si.Spex // Gerrit Rietveld Acadmeie 2020.

A Galactic Game

A GALACTIC GAME // 
Drawing installation + 3D printed objects.
Chinese ink on 1.50 m x 10 meter paper roll. 
Gerrit Rietveld Acadmeie 2020-2021.

Video projection 
Work in progress .  2019-2022

COLOURS?
Chinese ink and acrylic on paper / spectrum of colour on wall / text on computer screen.
Work in progress project. 2021

PUBLICATION

PUBLICATION

2021 
“Libretti” is the result of a three years experimentation on abstract and non linear writing.
The contents of the books constantly fluctuate between human suffering and desire, as a response to one’s fundamental differentiation between ‘the self’ and 'the other’. As infants we exist in an expansive realm of sensational togetherness with the world around us. As we slip into the structure of our social and cultural reality we absorb language and we are taught to construct our own identities by alienating the otherness felt within our inner selves. Late in life or due to traumatic experience, we cannot help but feel that something is missing within our innermost beings, that we contain a certain void, a lack born from our separation from the other. As soon as we come to realise that, we experience that this void is unfulfillable and so we begin to suffer and to desire.

Three little books - Libretti - tell a surrealistic conversation between a human and non human. The story begin in a world made of dreams, memories, forgotten realities and two voices that are trying to find a common language in order to communicate something to each other and ultimately to understand who they really are. Puzzuling multiple vocubularies and going through different exercises in different world the two realized that they are survaivors and that something incredible is about to happen. The collapse of the world. 
Phonemes, and graphisms are a great fascination that goes page by page, highlitging an acoustic rythm and  a strong visual connection between sounds and words.



The Cosmocomic World of Nonsense //
Publication 2021.

ENTER/ESC, PLEASE.
Nomination for the Rietveld Thesis prize 2021. 
Graduation Thesis.

ENTER/ESC, PLEASE. Thesis.
Nomination for the Rietveld Thesis prize 2021.

"Silvia’s thesis ENTER/ESC, PLEASE is not just a thesis. It’s a book, but it is not just a book. It’s a project but it is not just a project. It is a book, a thesis, a project and part of a total project in which text, content, typography, design (footnotes, fonts, punctuation, page layout, quality ofpaper) play an equal role. The thesis itself as content and as an object (book) in turn plays a role in Silvia's complete oeuvre as it is currently unfolding. Every detail has been thought through, nothing is left to chance. The thesis can be divided into two parts: a so-called sense section and a non-sensical section. The subject of the thesis is text: text as LANGUAGE, as IMAGE, as OBJECT. Silvia states: This thesis has been written with the intent of being an interface between different worlds, different realities, different times. It is an attempt to be considered not only as an alphabetical linear text composed by words and concepts but also as a multilayered performative tool. Every layer of readings represents a world, a different reality. (…) It is a visual, phonetic and poetical experiment. An important topic in the thesis is the desire for the other and otherness. Based on Lacan (Man’sdesire is a desire for the Other) Silvia adds: ... contending that the" goal” of one's desire is to return to a primordial re-conflation between the Self and the Other. In this desire the engine 'spins' that encourages the discovery of new fantastic or even surrealistic worlds. Silvia's thesis is an all-over visual, intellectual and tactile experience (rollercoaster); moreover, very conscientiously and intelligently designed."

Thesis Tutor: Q.S. Serafijn

"Silvia’s thesis ENTER/ESC, PLEASE is not just a thesis. It’s a book, but it is not just a book. It’s a project but it is not just a project. It is a book, a thesis, a project and part of a total project in which text, content, typography, design (footnotes, fonts, punctuation, page layout, quality ofpaper) play an equal role. The thesis itself as content and as an object (book) in turn plays a role in Silvia's complete oeuvre as it is currently unfolding. Every detail has been thought through, nothing is left to chance. The thesis can be divided into two parts: a so-called sense section and a non-sensical section. The subject of the thesis is text: text as LANGUAGE, as IMAGE, as OBJECT. Silvia states: This thesis has been written with the intent of being an interface between different worlds, different realities, different times. It is an attempt to be considered not only as an alphabetical linear text composed by words and concepts but also as a multilayered performative tool. Every layer of readings represents a world, a different reality. (…) It is a visual, phonetic and poetical experiment. An important topic in the thesis is the desire for the other and otherness. Based on Lacan (Man’sdesire is a desire for the Other) Silvia adds: ... contending that the" goal” of one's desire is to return to a primordial re-conflation between the Self and the Other. In this desire the engine 'spins' that encourages the discovery of new fantastic or even surrealistic worlds. Silvia's thesis is an all-over visual, intellectual and tactile experience (rollercoaster); moreover, very conscientiously and intelligently designed."

Thesis Tutor: Q.S. Serafijn