Silvia Felizia
Ellipsis
Artist Statement
My compositions can be read as maps of emotional landscapes that are informed by the contrast of my life in Argentina and my later experience moving around the world.
As a Latina living in the United States, I am drawn to the layered nature of identity and place, and the way inherited culture leaves its mark on me.
Houston, with its rich blend of cultures and stories, has offered me a place to take root. In this city, the idea of home is built, reshaped, and protected. It is a place where I find myself navigating between languages, and senses of identity and belonging. That feeling creates tension and beauty that is reflected in the colors I choose which, unapologetically vivid, are a representation of my native land, as well as the diversity of my current home, and are intended to showcase the power and the force of my voice.
In Ellipsis, home is represented as a circle, with some openings, but still a circle. The mediums are acrylic, cotton thread, and paper on canvas. The decision to use paper is to emulate the feeling of writing, and to transform the piece into a segment of written history.
Artist bio
Silvia Felizia is a contemporary abstract artist born and raised in Argentina, currently living and working in Houston, Texas.
From her teenage years Felizia began her career as a performance artist, a craft she developed for more than a decade in her native Córdoba. Then she moved to Buenos Aires where studied Graphic Design and worked in the industry until moving abroad in the mid 1990s.
During the first years away from her home country, Felizia started self-educating in visual arts and painting. Later, while living in Thailand, she learned the ancient techniques of mosaic art, which she mastered after years of practice and continues to apply to some of her paintings.
In recent years Felizia started adding textiles, photography, and writing as a fundamental instrument of her practice and exploration of the juxtaposition of identity, freedom, womanhood, and visibility through time.
Abstract and emotive, strong and vulnerable, Felizia’s body of work is drawn from her life story, the stories of others, and the many places she has lived, including Kyiv, Bangkok, and London.
Felizia’s work has been selected for exhibitions in the United States, England, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand.
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