Silvana Solivella was born in Geneva in 1964. She graduated in 1989 with a degree in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts in San Carlos de Valencia, Spain. She also received training in engraving and restoration of works of art. Based in Lausanne since the 1990s, her life has been punctuated by thousands of round trips between Spain and Switzerland. 

With numerous solo exhibitions, Solivella has also been invited to take part in group exhibitions in museums and foundations in Switzerland and abroad. Her work is part of public and private collections and has won prestigious awards, including the Alice Bailly Scholarship and the Irène Reymond Scholarship.

Solivella’s practice utilizes a wide range of materials including painting, sculpture, drawing, and works with salt. Her salt pieces use the crystallization process to represent the essence of passing time. 

Her works continue to find their source in the poetry of nature, the whole being inhabited by the question of imprint, and by the processes of appearance and disappearance of the image. They contain an immersive dimension, composed of recurring patterns (stones, pebbles, plant motifs, water currents) on the surface of the landscape, but also on the very nature of painting and color. She works off the themes of memory, trace, and forgetfulness while evoking the sea, and landscape of her childhood. Her reflections are focused on the idea of split or alternate looks at provenance and belonging.

http://www.solivella.ch