Silvia Levenson: the dark side of fairy tales
What unfolds through Silvia Levenson’s works is an unsettling narrative, in which magic reveals its ambiguity and its traps. With grace and delicacy, through the transparencies of glass—often rendered in soft, muted colors—the artist exposes the dark side of fairy tales and the danger that, for women, often lies precisely within the reassuring familiarity of everyday domestic life.
The art of Silvia Levenson
Silvia Levenson uses glass as a poetic and conceptual medium to address themes of vulnerability, memory, and violence concealed beneath appearances. The apparent fragility and beauty of her works contrast sharply with the narratives they carry, creating a tension that draws the viewer into a deeper reflection on hidden threats and unspoken trauma. Her artistic language transforms the material into a vehicle for storytelling, where intimacy and fear coexist, and where the domestic sphere becomes a place of both protection and danger.
Who is Silvia Levenson
Silvia Levenson was born in Argentina in 1957 and has lived and worked in Italy since 1981. Throughout her career, she has collaborated on numerous projects focused on the integration of refugees and migrants. One of her most recent traveling exhibitions, Identidad Desaparecida, is a denunciation project that has toured internationally, aiming to allude to the hundreds of children who were abducted and illegally adopted during Argentina’s military dictatorship.
Her work is included in major public and private collections worldwide, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, MUDAC in Lausanne, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung in Munich, the Museo del Castello Sforzesco in Milan, the Museo del Vetro di Murano, the Remotti Foundation in Camogli, and the Fondazione Banca San Gottardo.
She lives and works in Lesa, Italy.
