SLOW AFTER FORM by Dylan Silva

Amid moments of tension and constant noise, there are less visible intervals—spaces where urgency slows but does not disappear. It is in these moments that the individual remains, not as a resolution, but as continuity.

Throughout adulthood, complexity not only increases but accumulates. Experiences do not replace one another; they overlap. The body and mind carry traces, and it is in these states that a quieter process begins: not one of immediate reconstruction, but of observation, hesitation, and adaptation.

This project focuses on these intervals. Not as a refuge, but as an unstable territory where the subject is still processing what has happened while trying to recognize what has changed. There is a slowing down, but no clarity. There is time, but no certainty.

Form emerges as a starting point, a constructed, legible, recognizable structure. Throughout the process, it is subject to wear, repetition, and doubt, revealing its limits.

What follows is a slow dismantling of the constructed identity, where each layer removed does not ensure greater truth, but greater ambiguity. The result is not fixed. It remains incomplete, unstable, in transformation.

SLOW AFTER FORM by Dylan Silva proposes an attention to this intermediate time, a time when nothing is fully resolved, but everything continues to happen. It refers to the moment after the event, when what has been constructed loses definition and enters a process of gradual transformation, without clear conclusions.

The opening will take place on Friday, May 15, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm.
This show will be on display until June 12, and admission is free.

BIOGRAPHY

Dylan Silva (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Porto, whose practice encompasses painting and sculpture. He studied Multimedia at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto

His work focuses on personal memory and the human figure, often represented by diffuse, fragmented, or anonymous forms. The works emerge as silent narratives, evoking traces of incomplete stories, in a territory between presence and oblivion. In his most recent paintings, rendered in cool, melancholic tones, he explores human contact as a distant memory, almost dissolving.

At the same time, he has actively contributed to Porto’s independent art scene, having co-founded “Sábado-Feira,” an ongoing independent art fair held at Maus Hábitos (Porto), and “Senhora Presidenta” (2018–2025).

His work has been exhibited in national galleries such as Foco, Espaço Mira, and Galeria Graça Brandão, as well as in international venues, notably Ceravento in Pescara, Italy, and P7 in Berlin.

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