Anna Costa e Silva (Brazil) focuses on creating spaces for vulnerability, dialogue, and exchange through radical listening and encounter situations. An important aspect of her work is exploring collective and individual trauma and fantasy, specifically how one shouts and how one whispers. Her projects unfold as immersive installations, films, choreographies, and ephemeral experiences that exist in a hybrid space between documentary, fiction, dream, and imagination.
During her residency at Delfina Foundation, Anna will explore the relationship between sound and gender, particularly how female sound has historically been associated with madness and the role of misogyny in the development of AI. She will develop one-on-one listening processes that will culminate in a collective choir and imaginative experience.
Anna holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the School of Visual Arts, NY, and a postgraduate degree in Reichian Therapy from The Living Movement Institute, Rio de Janeiro. Her awards include the Franklin Furnace Performance Grant, FOCO Bradesco ArtRio, and the American Austrian Foundation Prize, among others. She has also been twice nominated for the PIPA Prize. Recent exhibitions include the 13th Mercosul Biennial, Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica, BienalSur, A Gentil Carioca, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, and Art In Odd Places. She has also held artist residencies at Terremoto-Ubisoft, Pivô Pesquisa, and the Rio de Janeiro City Council, where she worked with public workers to create projects.
Anna was born in 1988 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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