SEE MEMORY

Selected Paintings from the PBS Broadcast Film

Created frame by frame from more than 30,000 painted images, See Memory is a hand-painted film exploring memory, trauma, and healing through the intersection of painting, neuroscience, and narrative.

The original works presented here are drawn from the visual world of the film. Each exists both as an independent painting and as part of the moving sequence, preserving the tactile process behind a film built entirely through painted images.

Selected paintings from See Memory are available for acquisition.

About the Paintings

The paintings from See Memory began as part of a moving image, but they remain rooted in the directness and physicality of paint.

I created the film frame by frame, using gouache, acrylic, pastel, oil and mixed media to build an interior world shaped by memory: rooms that dissolve, figures that appear and recede, flowers that grow through domestic spaces, boats that drift across uncertain landscapes, and images that hover somewhere between lived experience and dream.

The act of painting became central to the subject of the film. Memory is not a fixed archive. It is revisited, altered, fragmented, and sometimes transformed by the meanings we give it later. The paintings retain that sense of movement, even when viewed as still works.

Several paintings from the series have been selected for exhibition and presentation alongside the film, including works connected to its museum and public programming. Together, they reveal the material process behind See Memory: a film made not only from images, but from thousands of individual painted moments.

Watch the Film

See Memory is a hand-painted film exploring memory, trauma, and healing through painting, narration, and scientific insight. The PBS broadcast edition brings together the original animated film with commentary from scientists and mental health professionals.

Watch See Memory
Learn More About the Film

Acquisition Inquiries

A limited selection of original paintings from See Memory is available through the studio.

For current availability, pricing, exhibition loans, or to arrange a studio visit in Long Island City, New York, please contact:

Viviane Silvera
onartprojects@gmail.com

New Work

Viviane Silvera is currently creating a new body of paintings for The Memory Loophole, a hand-painted film in progress exploring a daughter’s attempt to understand her father through memory, grief, and imagination.

View Paintings from The Memory Loophole

THE THERAPY SERIES

Selected Paintings

BORROWED MEMORY

Selected works on paper

Green Mountains, Pencil on Paper, Private Collection.

Blue Mist, Pencil on Paper, Private Collection.

EVERYDAY SAINTS

Selected Works On Paper

Everday Saint 5, Pencil on Paper, Private Collection

Everyday Saint 8, Pencil on Paper, Available upon inquiry