Clara Silveira (1990)  is a Brazilian multimedia artist whose nomadic practice is deeply informed by her background as a tango dancer. Her work investigates embodied memory through gesture, drawing from Argentine Tango as both an archive of diasporic memory and a choreography of violence. Her research focuses on the body as a living archive of inherited trauma, exploring the classical dichotomy between Greek melankholia and Latin furor—understanding fury as a vital antidote to melancholic paralysis.

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Working across installation, video, and performance, she transforms personal testimony into collective resonance, creating spaces where individual memory encounters shared experience. Her practice extends to social engagement through community projects with youth and collaboration with the women's collective Arsenália, employing art as a tool for empowerment and response to structural violence.

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Recent projects include her solo exhibition Exercises to Predict the Future at Centro Cultural Veras, developed through a contemporary art award for emerging artists, alongside a residency with the women's collective Arsenália. Her work Chororô—commissioned by Brazil's Ministry of Culture through the Aldir Blanc Award (2021)—received an honorable mention at the Videopoetry Festival in Oeiras, Portugal (2025). Further recognition includes presentations at Stockholm's Dansmuseet, the New York–Buenos Aires Dance Fest, and a Best Choreography nomination at the Exeter Film Festival.

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Over the past five years, Silveira's practice has expanded through international residencies including VIR at Associazione Viafarini in Milan, and GlogauAIR residency in Berlin (2024–2025). Projects developed during this period—Hard Candy, Net, and Dinner Table—continue her investigation into violence, displacement, and embodied memory through South American cultural traditions. Upcoming residencies include Casa San Vito, Italy (April 2026) and a fully funded residency at Absolute Space AIR, Taiwan (May 2026).