Regina Silveira inaugurates work on terminal at Houston Airport, USA

The public passing through the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, United States, will have the opportunity to see "Paradise", the latest project by Brazilian artist Regina Silveira. In all, there are three works: "Paradise Flight", "Paradise Wind" and "Paradise Mix". According to Regina, the diverse research and experiences accumulated during more than 60 years of career have led her to the poetic choices and means of production present in the "Paradise Project". There were two years of research and production, period in which the artist entered the imaginary of winged insects, references that have inhabited her artistic research for over 15 years. In this process, different graphic patterns of insects have taken on gigantic proportions in various spaces and architectures around the world.

In "Paradise Flight", a rectangular structure of printed tempered glass is suspended from the ceiling, while "Paradise Wind" was created on the floor with colored cement, simulating a false opening to the sky. "Paradise Mix" features printed glass attached to the wall. In all the works, the different species and scales of insects blend together as if they were flying through space. Regina Silveira's artistic research questions orthodox and pre-established forms of representation, leading her to explore new possibilities of meaning. Her works investigate architectural and contextual space, often causing strangeness by displacing the ordinary, i.e. our everyday references. Regina Silveira is known for her research into the principles of perspective, three-dimensionality and the study of shadows, which she applies to large site-specific installations, vinyl cut-outs, light projections, engravings, embroidery, porcelain and digital videos.