Regina Silveira: El sueño de Mirra and Other Constellations

Brazilian artist Regina Silveira presents an intervention developed for the glass cube at the vestibule of Amparo Museum, where a visual metaphor transforms the space and gives a new meaning to this place.

By means of designs of animals linked to the popular imaginary of Puebla, created with vinyl and enlarged to the limit of abstraction, the artist reproduces a monumental cross-stitch embroidery, attached to the walls. She also puts needles and threads on this giant embroidery.

The intervention is entitled The Dream of Mirra (El Sueño de Mirra), a reference to China Poblana, whose true name was Mirra, a princess that was brought from Asia to Puebla and has legendarily been related to this type of embroidery. The cross stitches chosen by Regina to present the designs at the vestibule, reflect fabrics from the region, imaginarily trying to cover the glass walls and reaffirm the people identity.

Regina Silveira also exhibits in three halls of the Museum, a constellation of twelve models and six videos of projects carried out in other regions of the world. The models stand as permanence strategies of her interventions, mostly ephemeral and temporal. Shadows and marks are common elements among the images she prints on the buildings, thus confronting the grandeur and permanence of the construction with the fugacity of the passing: footsteps, tire tracks, light reflections, shadows, animal hoofmarks, and clouds.

The models are accompanied by real-scale Mundus Admirabilis, the one she exhibited within the framework of "Jardínes de Poder" show carried out in Brasilia, which represents a metaphor created with harmful insects. In this work, the bad insects put in a big cage refer to the political life in Brasilia, specifically the power struggle and corruption. In different formats, since 2007 to date, this artwork has been showcased at the Museu da Pampulha (Belo Horizonte), show Philagrafika (Philadelphia), Poznan Biennale (Poland), Ibere Camargo Foundation (Porto Alegre) and Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo.

February 1 – May 26, 2014

Amparo Museum
2 South 708, Historic Core, Puebla, Pue. Mexico
Wednesday – Monday, 10:00 - 18:00 hours
Friday 10:00 - 21:00 hours
www.museoamparo.com