Silvana Reggiardo was born in 1967 in Argentina. She lives and works in Paris.
For Silvana Reggiardo, the practice of photography is a sensory experience: an experience of space, a visual experience, and an experience mediated by the camera.
She approaches the camera first and foremost as an object of vision rather than as a tool for capturing images, without seeking to document reality or to represent it. Through this phenomenological approach, her work explores the optical dimension of photography and/or the relationship between the image and its surface.
Through various photographic techniques, she conceives of the image as a simple surface that she then blends with the characteristics of the medium—matte paper in *Espace couleur*, watercolor paper in the *La Mercuriale* series, Plexiglas in *L’air ou l’optique*, and glass in *Destiempo* and *Effet de seuil*.
By playing with repetition, scale relationships, or by disrupting the viewer’s line of sight, she prompts the viewer to constantly shift their perspective in order to engage with a work that explores the limits of the visible.
www.silvanareggiardo.com
Interview, revue 02, Sammy Engramer, juillet 2020
Art Press n°460, Silvana Reggiardo, sans titre n°8, novembre 2018
Voir à travers, Anne Parian, 2017
L’air ou l’optique, Leïla Simon, 2015
L’épure et l’extase, Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, 2008
Entretien avec Michel Poivert, INHA, Paris, 2007