Silvana Muscio
Bio
Silvana Muscio (b. 1966, Argentina) is a visual artist whose practice is grounded in relational aesthetics, using the audiovisual medium as a tool to construct social and affective meaning. Through a weave of images and her own narrative grammars, Muscio explores the deep connection between the biographical and the social, shaping works as spaces of encounter and living archives that foster participation and the preservation of collective memory. From this perspective, she understands art not as a static object, but as a horizon of exchange: a generator of social and emotional bonds that transforms the viewer into an active participant in the work.
With a multidisciplinary background in Computer Science, photography, and communication, her work challenges perceptual states in order to expand new forms of awareness. Closely tied to natural beauty, Muscio proposes a socio-affective approach to the places we inhabit, encouraging the appreciation and care of the sublime qualities of nature. She explores gradations of light as a source for recreating spaces through a unique and memorable atmosphere, generating in her videos and photographs distinct moods achieved through the masterful use of chiaroscuro, natural filters, and pictorial interventions with acrylic and gold.
Her international trajectory includes exhibitions and projects in Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, and Costa Rica. She is a curator at Inspirad@s, a Canadian organization dedicated to Latin American art, and is part of the Argentine women’s collective Proyecto Trasborde. She is also affiliated with Eye-V Gallery, a global initiative focused on the intersection between photography and nature.
Muscio is represented by Ungallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and her work is part of numerous international collections, building a bridge between individual identity and the shared cultural landscape.
Statement
“If people were opened up, you would find landscapes.” — Agnès Varda
If you were a landscape… which one would you be?
Faced with this question, slowly—like someone shaping a memory—we begin to weave, through an invisible thread, our inner landscape with what appears before our eyes. This intimate, reflective dialogue is the affective force that allows territory to endure in our deepest memory.
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If you were a landscape… which one would you be? This is for you.
Close your eyes for a second. Open them. Speak that name. The landscape you feel you are.
Now, in front of you, a mirrored image. Observe in silence: it includes you, it holds you. It is that territory that surrounds you—the one to preserve, the one to nurture.
In this exercise of sensitive experience, where perception and experience merge, the image imprints itself again onto your retina, in an endless cycle. It becomes landscape, it becomes love for place, it becomes memory.
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This landscape—yours, mine, ours—shapes a shared emotional geography. Our rivers, forests, and seas reflect and amplify one another. Memory, emotion, and memories of the future.
And the photographic act, there, as a desire for a continuous present and as the potential of being within collective reflection toward planetary transformation.
Silvana Muscio, February 2026
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
