Sancho Silva
29 Sep - 15 Oct 2006
Sancho Silva
Cyclope, Studio 3,
September 29th – October 15th 2006,
Sancho Silva is a strategist of spatial transformation. He blocks up windows or constructs corridors and rooms that completely alter the scale and topology of an exhibition space. In this way, he confuses the viewer’s perception in order to open up surprising new perspectives. Generally, however, it means that Silva creates a privileged position for the recipient. This permits the visitor to confirm his standpoint and so regain the assurance of his perspective. The dialectics of illusion and disillusion thus become a key component of the artistic method.
For his exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Sancho Silva is planning to construct a kind of 'stereoscopic sight machine'; while the viewer sits in a dentist’s chair, looking into the attached funnel-shaped sculptures, this machine bombards him with a rapid succession of images showing fragmentary sequences of movement through urban space in Berlin.
"The truly exciting aspect of Sancho Silva’s usually reserved works, installations and objects is the up-to-date way in which they sound out and re-define the trompe l’oeil and fake. Silva creates gaps in perception that appear to camouflage their character as art, but present various changes of perspective at the same time." (Valeria Schulte-Fischedick).
Cyclope, Studio 3,
September 29th – October 15th 2006,
Sancho Silva is a strategist of spatial transformation. He blocks up windows or constructs corridors and rooms that completely alter the scale and topology of an exhibition space. In this way, he confuses the viewer’s perception in order to open up surprising new perspectives. Generally, however, it means that Silva creates a privileged position for the recipient. This permits the visitor to confirm his standpoint and so regain the assurance of his perspective. The dialectics of illusion and disillusion thus become a key component of the artistic method.
For his exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Sancho Silva is planning to construct a kind of 'stereoscopic sight machine'; while the viewer sits in a dentist’s chair, looking into the attached funnel-shaped sculptures, this machine bombards him with a rapid succession of images showing fragmentary sequences of movement through urban space in Berlin.
"The truly exciting aspect of Sancho Silva’s usually reserved works, installations and objects is the up-to-date way in which they sound out and re-define the trompe l’oeil and fake. Silva creates gaps in perception that appear to camouflage their character as art, but present various changes of perspective at the same time." (Valeria Schulte-Fischedick).