Playing with elasticities and elongations of montage, this short work contemplates the visual scales of what passes for social realism in contemporary Western media. To read the news is to climb a mountain of harrowing images only to realize that the reader is really at the bottom of a funnel. This visual study questions the role of iconographies, the malleability of meaning, and the potential spaces within filmic language.

 

Patricia Silva (they/them) is a Lisbon-born, New York City-based artist working with available light, cameras, words, and educational modules to facilitate deeper understandings about long-term immigration, the contours of identities, and diasporic renewals of self to place(s). Patricia’s writings have been published in The Gay and Lesbian Review, Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography, Daylight, Queering the Collection, and in Memories Can’t Wait: Conversations on Accessing History and Archives Through Artistic Practices. Patricia’s independent short films have screened internationally in film festivals and screening series. In 2011, they curated the first Luso-Brazilian Pop-Up Arts Festival in New York City; in 2018 they organized the Vivid Glances queer films program for Feminist Film Week NYC, and they are presently faculty at The School at the International Center of Photography.