Through a practice spanning photography, video and installation, Corinne Silva engages with questions of landscape in relation to colonial practices, knowledge transmission, mythology, trauma and resistance. She disrupts prevalent Western modes of the visualisation of landscape, understanding it as a complex interrelation of culture, geography, politics and botany, living beings and inanimate matter. While Corinne Silva’s work is informed by historic precedents in landscape photography, she seeks a visual language that privileges fragmentation and interrelationships rather than an all-encompassing overview, responding to place in an embodied and subjective manner to create new narrative possibilities that disrupt traditional modes of perception. Collaboration is important in Corinne Silva’s practice and she has been working on various research projects with other artists, writers, botanists, farmers and activists.
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To learn more about Corinne Silva’s practice, here are a few articles, interviews and essays about her work:
A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah (IL)
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, València (ES)
Imperial War Museum, London (GB)
Garden State, Ffotogallery, Wales and The Mosaic Rooms, London (GB)
Gardening the Suburbs, Makan Art Space, Amman (JO)
Wandering Abroad, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (GB)
Croydonisation, Museum of Croydon, London (GB)
Róisín Bán, Leeds City Museum (GB); Format Festival, Derby (GB); European Parliament, Brussels (BE)
Visual Rights, cur. Gary Bratchford, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (GB)
Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre], cur. Clelia Coussonnet, Le Cube, Rabat (MA)
Her Ground: Women Photograph Landscape, cur. Hannah Hughes and Lieve Beumer Flowers Gallery, London (GB)
Visible Justice, cur. Max Houghton and David Birkin, London College of Communication, London (GB)
Habitar el Mediterráneo, cur. Pedro Azara, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, València (ES)
Metageography: Orientalism and Dreams of Robinson, cur. Nikolay Smirnov Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok (RU)
NEW:DEFENCE, cur. Gemma Padley Coalhouse fort, Essex (GB)
Metageography 3: Space Image Action, cur. Nikolay Smirnov & Olga Jürgenson, Pushkin House, London (GB)
Plant / Lives, collaboration with Eva Sajovic, Darat al Funun, Amman (JO)
ReGeneration3, Lishui Art Museum (CN)
ReGeneration3, FORMAT Festival, QUAD Gallery, Derby (GB)
ReGeneration3, Museo Amparo, Puebla (MX)
ReGeneration3, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (CH)
In/Visible Cities, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London (GB)
My Sister Who Travels, Mosaic Rooms, London (GB)
I See Europe! Kunstbezirk, Fotosommer Stuttgart (DE)
The World in London, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (GB)
Uneven Development, with Jason Larkin, Brighton Photo Biennial (GB)
Open Here, Hereford Photography Festival (GB)
Flash Forward Festival, Toronto (CA) & Boston (US)
Ways of Looking photography festival, Bradford (GB)
Journeys out…Journeys, with Mariele Neudecker, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (GB)
Manifesta 8 Paralelos, Murcia (ES)
Reading Landscape, Architectural Association, London (GB)
Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Leuwarden, The Netherlands (NL)
Flash Forward Festival, Toronto (CA)
Projected Landscapes, Architectural Association, London (GB)
Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Groningen (NL)
Between the Hallucinatory and the Real, University of Brighton (GB)
Coded, Brighton Media Centre Gallery, Brighton (GB)
From War to Windrush, Imperial War Museum, London (GB)
Journeys of Change, Imperial War Museum, London (GB)
North By North West, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (GB)
Foreigness, screening programme, cur. Olga Jürgenson, KUMU Art Museum of Estonia (EE)
Into the Light artist video screening, London Transport Museum, London (GB)
Screening & in-conversation, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, UCL, London (GB)
Photography Beyond the Gallery, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton (GB)
I-Portunus Artist Mobility Award, Creative Europe programme of the European Union (EU)
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art research support grant, London (GB)
Mack First Book Award, finalist, London (GB)
FOAM Paul Huf Award, nominated, Amsterdam (NL)
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award, Toronto (CA)
Arts and Humanities Research Council travel bursary (GB)
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award, Toronto (CA)
Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award, University of the Arts London (GB)
University of Brighton Santander-Abbey travel bursary (GB)
Arts Council England Award (GB)
New Artists’ Collaborations bursary, Artist’s Information Company (GB)
Home Office Connecting Communities grant (GB)
Heritage Lottery Fund grant (GB)
Darat al Funun, The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman (JO)
Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur (AADK), Murcia (ES)
Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas (LT)
A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah (IL)
A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah (IL)
Plat(f)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH)