THE MEMORY LOOPHOLE
Paintings from a Film in Progress
The Memory Loophole is a new series of original paintings created for my hand-painted non fiction film about a daughter trying to understand her father after his death.
Moving between childhood memory, family history, hospital rooms, domestic interiors, and dream spaces, the paintings explore what remains when someone we love can no longer answer our questions. Each work exists both as an independent painting and as part of the evolving visual world of the film.
Selected paintings are now available for acquisition.
Forget Me Not - Kitchen Window
Gouache, oil and acrylic on linen, 30 × 40 in.
From The Memory Loophole
Private Collection
Forget Me Not - Holland Park
Gouache and acrylic on linen, 30 × 40 in.
From The Memory Loophole,
Available upon inquiry
Hallway with Monet
Gouache and acrylic on linen, 30 × 40 in.
From The Memory Loophole
Available upon inquiry
Artist Afloat
Gouache and acrylic on linen, 30 × 40 in.
From The Memory Loophole
Available upon inquiry
Forget Me Not - Farm Girl
Gouache and acrylic on linen, 30 × 40 in.
From The Memory Loophole
Available upon inquiry
What If - Wharf Studios
Gouache and acrylic on linen, 30 × 40 in.
From The Memory Loophole
Available upon inquiry
The Herd
Gouache and acrylic on linen, 30 × 40 in.
From The Memory Loophole
Available upon inquiry
Train of Thought
Gouache and acrylic on linen, 30 × 40 in.
From The Memory Loophole
Available upon inquiry
About the Series
In The Memory Loophole, painting becomes a way of approaching a story that cannot be fully recovered through facts alone.
The film follows a daughter piecing together the life of her father through the fragments he left behind: childhood memories, family stories, places, objects, absences, and the unanswered questions that continue after a death. The paintings move through these layers of recollection and imagination, creating spaces in which the past can briefly be entered again.
A museum clock becomes an opening into another moment in time. A hospital hallway stretches into memory. Flowers, interiors, bodies, and empty rooms shift between observation and dream. Painted individually, the images are later animated into sequences in which memory is continually forming, dissolving, and being reassembled.
This new work grows out of the visual language I developed in See Memory, my hand-painted film about memory, trauma, and healing, created from more than 30,000 painted frames and broadcast on PBS in 2025. In The Memory Loophole, the inquiry becomes more intimate: how do we remember someone we could never fully know, and what can an image hold when memory is incomplete?
Acquisition Inquiries
Original paintings from The Memory Loophole are available selectively through the studio.
For availability, pricing, or to arrange a studio visit in Long Island City, New York, please contact:
Viviane
onartprojects@gmail.com
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Related Work
This new project builds on the visual language of See Memory, Silvera’s hand-painted PBS film exploring memory, trauma, and healing.