Echo of future bodies
Caterina Silva (Rome 1983) investigates through painting and performance the connections between language and power, adopting a silent perspective with which to elude canonical structures of production of meaning and questioning wider systems of classification and control.
She was an artist in residence at Cité des arts, Paris 2012; Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam 2014-2015; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju 2016; NKD, Dale, Norway 2018. In 2022 she is awarded the Italian Council-XI Edition-Talent development grant.
Recent exhibitions and performances include The cruellest month, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, 2022; Summer unknown, curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Bosse&Baum, London 2022; Body en thrall, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Rugby art gallery and museum, Rugby, UK, 2022; Ad ampio respiro, Rita Urso-Artopia, Milan, 2021; Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə, curated by Marta Federici, MACTE Digital, MACTE Foundation, Termoli, 2021; Present Future, Artissima, Turin, 2019; Diaries among diaries, Fondazione Spinola Banna, Poirino, 2019; Scratching the present, Casa Testori, Milan, 2018; Impressioni, Bosse&Baum, London, 2018; Amor Proprio, Centrale Montemartini, Rome, 2017; SSOL/AP, Rozenstraat a rose is a rose and various locations, Amsterdam 2017; Münster, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, 2016; Subject. Object. Abject., Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, 2015.
Concept and making Caterina Silva
Voices Adele Tulli, Anna Cestelli Guidi, Anna Negri, Caterina Silva, Clarissa Secco, Claudia Evangelista, Federica Griesi, Giulia Achilli, Marina Collard, Marta Mancini, Ornella Paglialonga
Curator Anna Cestelli Guidi
Supported by Italian Council - Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea - Talent Development Grant
Partner institutions MACTE, Termoli; Plataforma Festival, Santiago de Compostela; viaindustriae publishing, Foligno
Thanks to Marta Federici, Jacopo De Bertoldi, Fabrizio Pizzuto