Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Silvana Soriano is a visual artist, art teacher, and illustrator currently based in Miami, Florida. Soriano has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Brazil, Spain, France, the USA, and Cuba, including having her work featured at Pinta Miami Art Fair and Volta Art Fair New York. She is represented by The CAMP gallery in Miami. She has also illustrated several books, spanning from children’s literature to poetry and publishing an art magazine online.

 

Narrative is the main idea of ​​my artwork.

I like to work in series, explore stories, poems, and brief sentences to understand what we can see that had not been said, what is behind the stories, and find out who owns these words.

My work has been driven by a desire to reveal an image with strong poetic content, where the body is physical and represents personal speech. Therefore, it can be said my work is a record of precise moments that alludes to the poetry of the mind and the connotations that it takes on the body.

Two elements play an essential role in my work: the line and the gesture. I have been working with etching for many years, and the line is always present in the printing. Even in the painting, the line is there to give the structure that determines the space. Expressive gestures built strong lines that give movement and emotion to the composition.

As part of my stories and language research, I created a project called Ipsis Litteris. I explore idioms in different languages ​​and bound them with  visual and cultural reference.