Silence

Silence

Artist: Sandra Chaves
Title: Silence
Technique: Micron pen on paper (Pointillism and Hatching)
Dimensions (with frame): 32 cm × 42 cm
Edition: Unique piece from 2024
Original signed work | Includes certificate of authenticity

Description:

"There are silences that are not a choice — they are open wounds that time does not heal."

In this moving piece, Silence, silence is not peace — it is imposition. The figure of a child with their mouth covered by a dark strip becomes a symbol of all those who were silenced before they ever had a voice. The gaze, hauntingly mature, carries the weight of a stolen childhood. Each carefully rendered dot tells a story that may never be spoken.

With her characteristic sensitivity, the artist denounces — with elegance — what so often gets swept beneath the layers of time: childhood trauma, veiled violence, the invisibility of wounds small in appearance but deep in truth. The pointillist technique heightens the contrast between the innocence of the face and the brutality of the gesture that silences it.

Silence is a call to listen. An urgent plea to pay closer attention to the voices that cannot scream. A powerful, sensitive work — and one of profound social impact.