A Parallel Planets piece by Unknown
Her website was fifty-fifty rendered in a language foreign
to me but the images were enough to show how creatively out of this world
Silvia Grav’s work is.
Obscure structures, scratched textures, and free forms of
smoke welcome you in this gallery of incredible images, dreamlike and dark at
the same time. Mostly captured in black and white, Silvia’s images were born
out of technique and the translation of reveries into reality.
A photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, Silvia
has exhibited her works in the USA, Europe, and her hometown Spain. She has
also been featured in publications from different parts of the world as she
continues to work with other practices like collages and documentaries.
Silvia has formed a considerable following since her work
isn’t hard to miss. Despite the attention, she doesn’t try to impress by
creating visuals that are typical and pleasurable to the eyes. Nudity, sadness, and deformed bodies are just
some of her subjects while an obvious fascination for otherworldly matters and
geometric figures can also be seen.
But it isn’t all about splendour as Silvia is also inspired
by social and political issues like the Holocaust. As seen in her project
entitled “About the Holocaust,” Silvia has interpreted the massive destruction
through a set of images that represent fire, sorrow and death; a haunting and
artistic narrative of a gory past.
A personal favourite from Silvia’s works is “I Can’t See Me”
– a collection of eyeless portraits that’s evocative of ignorance or the desire
to be blind of what is surrounding us. There is no explanation why Silvia
creates images like these. Images you’d love to see in an exhibit but doubt of
viewing at midnight when quarters are closed and environments are silent. Let’s
not even begin to talk about “The End Again” which was made to think and
disturb the basic human mind.
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