Regina Silveira. Lumen

Silveira has always drawn on her experience as teacher in various schools, for instance the School of Communication and Arts in the University of São Paulo, and is hugely dedicated to art teaching and the use of new mediums of technical reproduction and other technological resources that she uses imaginatively in her work. She has also taught numerous prominent artists from new generations in Brazil.

Light is the core theme running through Lumen, the project created for the Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro Park in Madrid, as it poetically engages with the building’s architecture and the surrounding environment. Its involvement is conceived as inseparable to the building with the capacity to transform the architecture through insertions that alter its visuality and meaning. For Silveira, the Palacio de Cristal constitutes an enormous receptacle of natural light, a colossal transparent box, through which the light of the sky passes with no opaque mediums other than the diaphanous and open network of the sheets of glass. Light is the element that gives meaning to the conception of the three pieces featuring in the project, and is key to the articulation of dialogue that is set up with the Palacio's architecture.