artwork

The Silva Field Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future

Details

• Artist: Rick Silva
• Year: 2014
• Medium: Compilation Video (11:38) and 18 Individual Birds (00:30)
• Gallery: Transfer Gallery

Description

Inspired by 'Sibley’s Field Guide to Birds' and readings on multiverse theory, Silva modeled the first of his birds in 2014. ‘The Silva Field Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future’ is a web-based video work consisting of 18 animations, 30 seconds each, accompanied by a short story by Claire L. Evans.

Silva's birds take flight over gleaming horizons with impossible geometries, flapping their wings with imaginary physics and stunning the viewer with beguiling colors and textures.

http://silvafieldguide.com/

The work can be viewed online, displayed as a single-channel seamless loop, or in a grid featuring the individual birds playing on loop.

Rick Silva(1977, São Paulo, Brazil) is an artist whose recent videos, websites and images explore notions of landscape and wilderness in the 21st century. He received an MFA from The University of Colorado in 2007, and has since shown extensively nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at TRANSFER Gallery in New York, Wil Aballe Art Projects in Vancouver, New Shelter Plan in Copenhagen, and Ditch Projects in Oregon. His projects are included in multiple permanent collections such as The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Borusan Contemporary Collection.