· Artist and architect SILVIA TURBINERBuenos Aires, Argentina.StatementI was born, work and live in Buenos Aires. I studied and graduated as an architect, where I found my first path to my artistic expression.Through the artist and teacher Luis Negrotti’s courses...
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Artist
and architect SILVIA TURBINER
Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
Statement
I
was born, work and live in Buenos Aires. I studied and graduated as an
architect, where I found my first path to my artistic expression.
Through
the artist and teacher Luis Negrotti’s courses I was introduced to textile and
papermaking techniques that created a close connection to nature,
natural
materials and traditional and nontraditional weaving methods.
When
I first started pulling and playing with bast fibers, it reminded me of how I
feel when I swim, the same kind of movement and lightness. I feel a very strong
connection between swimming and the preparation of the fibers and handmade
paper. Paper is a versatile material full of poetry, delicate yet strong,
smooth and structured, created in water, shaped in water.
I
like seeing the whole process through, from the beginning right to the very
end, from the gathering of the plants, drying, soaking and cooking of the
fibers until it stands as a sculpture. I love to feel the tactility of the
surface and watch how it becomes a strong/vulnerable skin that bends and flows
with my breath.
My
works are about identity and the quality of existence…they are about memories
and heritage appearing through different layers of sculpted paper.
For
over more than 30 years I have taught, lectured and exhibited locally and
internationally. My “Presence of the void” received the Joan Wall Award at the
Textile Biennial of the Sivori Museum in Buenos Aires and one of my earlier
Artist Books is part of the collection of the National Liberty Museum of
Philadelphia.
Today
my creative nature grows by experimenting and sharing with artists that come to
my studio, and happily, this never ends.
