Spit It Out!
2021
Single-channel HD Video
7:33mins
Piano composition: Daniel Wood
Filmed: South Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, and Glasgow, Scotland
Come with Me
2020
Single-channel HD Video
6:29mins
Filmed: Glasgow, Scotland, Los Angeles, California, and Mojave Desert, California
Statement
It wasn’t hard to get here, not as hard as I would’ve thought. It’s been warm out and I picked a scab from a midge bite on my foot. I picked it until it was sore, red and open with a thin puffy pink line of skin framing it. It looked like a deep red mirror and I couldn’t help picking deeper, half aware that I was digging into myself. I widened the hole until it was just big enough, and I thrust my head in, diving down, turning everything inside out.
Come with Me and Spit It Out! are sister pieces, made to be watched in no specific order.
Biography
Paige Silverman (b. 1990, Los Angeles, California) lives in Glasgow, Scotland and is studying for her MFA at Glasgow School of Art. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in sculpture in 2012. Silverman primarily works in sculpture, text, and video.
In October 2021, Silverman exhibited in the group show ‘A Slip of Certain Measure’ at Crownpoint Studios in Glasgow. In addition, she exhibited at Soft Spot gallery in Manchester, UK, in the two-person show ‘Right Down the Middle’ with Georgia Robenstone in February, 2020. Silverman received a solo exhibition at Chainlink Gallery, Los Angeles, California in 2017. An installation of her work was recently published in Stillpoint Magazine. Residencies Silverman has attended including Forres GSA Highland Residency (Forres, Scotland), Land404 Residency (Gullholma, Sweden), Mhor Farr Residency (Laide, Scotland), Vermont Studio Center (Johnston, Vermont), and Banff Emerging Artist Residency (Banff, Canada).