Nora Silva
Silva is a Spanish-Chilean researcher and artist based in London and Madrid. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in July 2017, and, as an artist, has performed at leading UK institutions such as Tate Exchange, Design Museum and Camden Arts Centre in London.
The Reluctant Goodbye
“The Reluctant Good Bye is a site-specific performance in which I make ice cubes with an ice cube mold to then throw them at the Arctic sea. The piece is a desperate gesture towards the vastness of the climate crisis, a domestic approach to an unalterable outdoors. Like an anxious joke, the piece is a ridiculous attempt to restrain global warming.
What is our capacity as citizens with no apparent competence to affect such seemingly distant issues? Can we summon change from the domestic? I intend to challenge the power of small gestures with a romantic pilgrimage to the North. The Reluctant Good Bye is a constant effort towards a cause perceived as lost. With the anxiety of a widow who mourns for his lost lover, I propose a proactive grieving for the lost ice. However The Reluctant Good Bye is not about failure, it’s about hope.”
