Silvia Pott

My painting emerges from the friction between order and instability — a field where systems are constructed only to be dismantled. In my practice, abstraction is not a style, but a language that suspends representation in favor of sensory experience.
Color, gesture, and pictorial matter operate as active forces that structure tensions between control and spontaneity. With an initial background in programming, I introduce a structural logic into the process that is deliberately destabilized through the act of painting. This dynamic becomes a conceptual axis, reflecting the human condition as a continuous search for balance in the face of unpredictability.
My work engages with literary and philosophical references that remain latent — fragments of text concealed beneath layers of color, more suggested than revealed. Rather than proposing narratives, I construct fields of perception in which color assumes a central role, inviting the viewer into an experience that is direct, intimate, and open.
I understand painting as a space of freedom and inquiry — a territory where materiality and thought converge, giving rise to gestures that are unique, irreproducible, and alive.

SHE BEGAN HER PROFESSIONAL ART TRAINING IN 1983, AT THE PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS BUT DECIDED TO PURSUE HER RESEARCH OUTSIDE ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND ATTENDED PAINTING CLASSES AT THE STUDIO OF RENOWNED ARTIST FRANCISCO BIOJONE.

2024 - Olympics of Art - Artiade - New York
2023 - Our colorful Brazilan soul - Imaginart Gallery - Barcelona - Spain
2023 - Our colorful Brazilian soul - Sestante Gallery - Cascais - Portugal
2023 - The Museum of the Americas - Majo Portilla Art Gallery - The Netherlands
2023 – Women in the arts 2023 – The Museum of the Americas - Houston - USA
2023 – Women in the Arts 2023 – The Museum of the Americas – Imaginarte Gallery – Barcelona - Spain
2023 – The Art that inhabits us - Bal DArt Galerie – Brussels – Belgium
2023 – Women in the arts 2023 – The Museum of the Americas - The Falcon Villa – Dubai - UAE
2023 – Emerging – Nails in the wall Gallery – Metuchen – NJ
- USA
2022 – Luxemburgo Art Prize 2022 - Certificate of Artistic
Merit
- Our Colorful Brazilian Soul - Bal Art Gallery - Brussel - Belgium - 2022
- Vaduzer Saal Cultural Center - Lietchestein - 2022
- Our colorful Brazilian soul - New Art Gallery - São Paulo - Brazil - 2022
- Christmas Show at Espace D´art Lu Monin - Pully - Switzerland - physical exhibition
- Artroom Gallery - Art Exhibition Textures & Patterns - 2021 - Merit Award
- Doncaster Mental Health Exhibition 2021 - Longlisted
- Boldbrush Painting Competition - Fav. March 2021
- Exhibition Up Time Art Gallery...