Through her exhibition "Under the Red Light" at the "Tashkeel" Center in Dubai, artist Silvia Hernando Alvarez created a space similar to a museum that displays the remains of human existence on Mars, as I deliberately put visitors on a journey in front of the distant future, to separate them from reality completely, and allow Have a sensual experience imagined in time and space
Through her exhibition that was recently opened in "Tashkeel", the artist launches a dialogue about the image languages and how they can be produced and alter their context and concept to the recipient through the meaning that is being developed for them. Silvia used experimentation to present this exhibition, based on photography, and on the presentation of models that support the image in converting imagination into an integrated reality.
A dialogue between truth and fiction, the realistic picture and legend, presented by the artist who produced the works of the exhibition through her participation in the program of critical practice in "Tashkeel", as it works on the ability of the image to embody many of the suggestions. Silvia takes the recipient to an imagined world with the remains of Mars, but in reality she presents at the exhibition photographs of the desert in the Emirates, specifically in Liwa, and a group of rocks and sand, in addition to photographing pieces of marble in the center of formation, and presented as captured from the red planet .. This innovative relationship with the place also withdraws over time, as it sets a standard in her work. The idea is based on imagining a time in the distant future, but entering it at this imaginary stage makes the works related to him as much as they are separated from him, as the artist manipulates the concept of time and space in a way that exists through it. A pleasant sensual experience For the recipient.
Aesthetics
In the exhibition, the artist’s view of the future and the past alike unfolds, between measurements, images, mapping and data, so she seems busy with the issue of knowledge and the development of her tools over time, as she searches the latent and unknown life of things and people, as if she is close to looking forward to the future by showing all of these Pieces from the past.
This work carries aesthetics in thought that are in line with the aesthetics of the media, as it searches on the issue of knowledge stemming from our awareness of things, which are later generated by tools, which means that the aesthetics of tools separate from and become independent from the idea. This type of work is based on adapting the material and giving it many possibilities in expression, which means that the recipient can see the same works and drop a new idea on them, and give them different meanings and meanings wherever he meets them.
Museum case
About her exhibition that will last until February 25, artist Silvia Hernando Alvarez told «Emirates Today»: «There is a group of things that I collected and put in the exhibition, to create the museum case that I wanted visitors to live, and there are also a group of things that I created myself, For example, some rocks were collected from the Emirates from Maliha, from Liwa, others from Spain, in addition to a group that created them and formed them in the form of rocks. She added that she was keen to find a dialogue between the things she provided and the attendees, explaining that preparing for the exhibition took nearly a year of continuous work, within the program of critical practice with the Tashkeel Center in Dubai. Regarding her experience with the center in research and experimentation, Sylvia confirmed that she was distinguished by continuous dialogues with artists, as well as learning new technologies through workshops, debates and discussions, and it was a dynamic experience, noting that when I started preparing for work, I started from searching for articles explaining the play on the idea of how Seeing the things that we are used to in daily life, and how we can look at them with a different eye when we change ideas about them, it is a matter related to the imagination and how it can sail away in new visions, pointing out that it chooses from the artistic media what is appropriate for the idea and the work that you choose to present. And about her experience in the Emirates, she said that she loved the desert, and learned through her work that there is diversity in this space, whether in its shape or even the color of sand.
Biography
Silvia Hernando Alvarez, an artist (half Castilian and half Galician), lives in Dubai, and holds two Masters degrees in Fine Art and Photography from Lins College of Visual Arts.
She participated in many group exhibitions, including "Made in Tashkeel", "House of Palaces", and Sikka Art Gallery. It is interested in showing the contradiction between what is not real and recorded history, that is, truth versus fiction and history versus legend, and she also participated in the program of critical practice for the 2018 and 2019 seasons in Tashkeel.