The tracing of this show of isolation and for isolation stems from the exchange that in recent months Silvia has had with the voices of friends and strangers. They have sent her epigraphs and verbal suggestions which she then transformed into drawings. This arrives as an outgrowth of the process inaugurated by Sono Dentro, a three-day event in which she collected from visitors their memories of lived experiences and sensations. She synthesized the raw material of these memories into drawings that showed a sort of amplified identity.

Silvia’s creativity has always been eruptive, as if she were freeing ideas from a state of detention. Once in the open, she does not treat these ideas as her own; they already belong to everyone, to everything. Even when she designs futures, they are ancestral. In her plots (whether drawings or works for the stage) there is a kind of free-floating intentionality without subjective origin. Current conditions have made a convergence more evident. In fact, the projects that she imagined during the quarantine in March and April 2020 concretize what is already a method for her: working on and incorporating constraints.

In the drawings, liquid bodies gravitate, matching themselves to a singular material element with which they create an energy field. The individual melts or wedges, sprouts or rains in their Room. Pivotal figures and materials are dust, gold, black holes, beams of light, roots, a desk, a window. Looking at Silvia’s images one can imagine a sound coming from nowhere.

It is the fantasy of a body discovering new relationships with itself.  Silvia wants to be where there are no dimensions, neither internal nor external. This is how It would be about us almost becomes an oracle of which she is the medium.

We witness bodies enveloped in private and atomized worlds, caught between abandoning themselves to an inhuman nature and stiffening into icons. They arise from the SOS messages called out by the voices of others, the echoes of their boldface fragments re-composed into a silent choral work.