Multidisciplinary artist Nora Silva defines herself as someone who makes things. On a deeper level, she can be described as an artist, independent researcher, and Spanish-Chilean writer based in London, who after graduating in Fine Arts travelled around Latin America working as a cook.

Her art focuses on social awareness and invites viewers to reflect on our responses to issues facing today’s societies such as the loss of privacy, climate change, migration policies, the consumer society and the touristification of cities. 

Her work is typically action-based performance supported by installations and objects.

Splendour & Mass is a social critique of the model of tourism prevalent across the world. The artist focuses her attention on the excessive demands of first world tourism and highlights, through the creation of a ‘touristification’ agency, the consequences this has in many countries. 

Through humour and irony, Nora Silva’s work urges us to reflect on the politics of excess.