Clara Silveira (1990) is a Brazilian multimedia artist whose practice grows out of the social and performative dimensions of tango. Having lived for four years in Buenos Aires, she immersed herself in its tango community, where the dance revealed itself as both an archive of diasporic memory and a choreography of trauma. Investigating how displacement and loss are carried in the body and transmitted through gesture, she works across video installation, painting, sound and objects to reassemble fragments of personal history into shared spaces of resonance, where individual memory meets collective experiences.

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Dividing her time between Italy and Brazil, Clara is developing a solo exhibition at Veras Cultural Center, presented as the result of a contemporary art prize she received for emerging artists. Her practice has recently expanded through international residencies, including GlogauAIR (Berlin, 2024–2025), where she staged the Hard Candy project weaving together themes of intimacy and displacement. Alongside her central project, she realized Net and Dinner Table (2024) as companion experiments, deepening the research she began in Buenos Aires and drawing on South American tango traditions to explore embodied memory, gesture, and collective histories.

 

In 2023, during her residency at Associazione Viafarini in Milan, she developed a cycle of paintings that explore trauma and memory, confronting the pervasive effects of violence and giving form to experiences often silenced. Following her residency projects, Clara’s work has gained international recognition through festivals and exhibitions, including the ScreenDance Festival at Stockholm’s Dansmuseet (2023), New York–Buenos Aires Dance Fest (2023). In addition, she received the Aldir Blanc Prize (Brazil, 2021), supporting projects such as Chororô and EXIT, a social initiative promoting youth empowerment through contemporary art.