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BEYOND SHARED LANGUAGE - Society for Contemporary Craft

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SILVIA LEVENSON<br />

38<br />

Bibi (Album di famiglia), 2008<br />

Fused glass, acrylic and photo on aluminum<br />

19 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 3/4 inches<br />

Courtesy of Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR<br />

Con la serie Album Di Famiglia, reflexiono sobre mi niñez. Cuando modifico mis fotos<br />

familiares en realidad trato de curar mi memoria. Mis abuelos, como la mayoría de los<br />

argentinos, vinieron de Europa. Emigraron a Argentina buscando una vida mejor, pero sus hijos<br />

y nietos terminaron volviendo a Europa durante la dictadura en un viaje circular.<br />

Las fotografías están modificadas, ampliadase impresas en el aluminio, a las cuales luego les<br />

aplico vidrio fundido. En estas fotos mi hermana Bibi y yo estamos alimentando palomas en la<br />

Plaza de Mayo. En la misma plaza algunos años después, fuimos buscando nuestros parientes y<br />

amigos que habían desaparecido durante la dictadura de Videla en 1976. Quizás lo que es más<br />

central es la manera en la que la relación fuerte que tenía con mi hermana fue modificada<br />

durante mi exilio en Italia, dejando un vacío que sólo podría ser descrito con la creación de estas<br />

obras de arte.<br />

With my Album di famiglia series I am reflecting on my childhood and trying to heal my own memories<br />

by modifying family photos. My grandparents, like most Argentineans, came from Europe. As they<br />

immigrated to Argentina looking <strong>for</strong> a better life, their children and grandchildren then emigrated to<br />

Europe during the dictatorship in a circular journey.<br />

The photographs are modified, enlarged and printed on aluminium, then I apply fused glass over<br />

the images. In these photos my sister Bibi and I are at Plaza de Mayo feeding pigeons. In the same<br />

square some years later we went looking <strong>for</strong> our missing relatives and friends that had disappeared<br />

during the dictatorship of Videla in 1976. Maybe what is more central is the way in which the strong<br />

relationship I had with my sister was shattered during my immigration to Italy, leaving a void that can<br />

only be described with the creation of these works of art.

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