The Memory Loophole
Paintings from a Film in Progress

The Memory Loophole is a new hand-painted non fiction project by Viviane Silvera, following a daughter as she pieces together the story of her father through fragments of memory, family narrative, grief, and imagination.

Created as part of the film’s evolving visual world, these original paintings move between intimate interiors, hospital corridors, childhood recollections, dream spaces, and suspended moments of encounter. Each work exists both as a singular painting and as part of a larger cinematic sequence in which images transform, disappear, and return.

Building on Silvera’s acclaimed hand-painted film See Memory, the series continues her exploration of memory as something living and unstable: not a fixed record of the past, but a space shaped by longing, trauma, love, and the stories we create in order to understand what has been lost.

Selected paintings from The Memory Loophole are now available for acquisition.

Forget Me Not (Kitchen Window), 2026, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Private Collection

Forget Me Not (Holland Park), 2026, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available

Hallway With Monet, 2026, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available

Artist Afloat, 2026, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Private Collection

Remember Me (Farm Girl) 2026, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available

What If? Wharf Studios) 2026, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available

The Herd, 2026, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available

Train of Thought, 2026, Gouache, acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 30” x 40” x 2”, Available