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Dirt Nap is a video work by Oregon-based artist Rick Silva composed of forty-six one-minute excerpts from naps the artist took in outdoor sites across the western United States between September 2024 and January 2026. Sequenced in the order they were recorded, the work unfolds as a durational record of rest, attention, and time spent in landscape.
The screening of this video work will be accompanied by an artist talk by Silva.
About the Artist
Rick Silva is an artist whose practice considers landscape through technology, duration, and embodied experience. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. His work has been featured in Artforum, Wired, and Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology. Silva was born in Brazil, received his MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder, and lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he is a professor at the University of Oregon.
This program is supported by Art Bridges Foundation. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Altered States in the Acid West.