Title: Dalieh of Raouché, Beirut, Lebanon, and Rodalquilar mine, Almería, Spain. From the series Rocks and Fortresses: The Sailor

Year: 2018/24

Media: C-type photograph and hand applied earth pigment on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag

Size: 28 x 35.5 cm

About the work: Two Mediterranean journeys: one by land and one by sea.

A woman dedicates her life to walk the coastlines and confront every castle and watchtower she finds. 

Beirut, Chania, Valletta, Almería. 

The longer she studies them, they appear to change form, disintegrating before her eyes, returning to the rocks they came from. 

 A woman sets sail across the sea, searching for the sailor. 

Cairo, Tripoli, Catania, Tangier. 

She checks every port, every ship, every gambling house and alleyway. 

And yet her longing surpasses the quest for her lost love.

Bio: Corinne Silva (Leeds, UK) is an interdisciplinary artist based in London and Athens. Working across photography, moving image, textiles and installation, Silva engages ecologies of land, communities and colonisation, making visible fractures of historic violence as well as strategies of survival and resistance. Grounded in deep research and engagement with places and their inhabitants – human, animal, plant and mineral – her practice weaves together materials, mythologies and multi-sensorial experience to create new spaces of critical inquiry and knowledge transmission, moving beyond the re-presentation of landscape towards fostering the reparative conditions for its re-making.