Sylvain Barberot - Silence

“Punctum” is the beginning of a series of works entitled “epitaph.” They are a poetic way of embracing death with poetry by choosing a word selected to sublime it. The engraving is highlighted with 22-carat gold to recall the funerary iconography.

The Punctum has several meanings:
- It is the element of a photograph that stings, that touches us personally in an unexpected way. It makes the narrative intimate and renders an image alive, imprinting it in our memories.
- It provokes an emotion or a memory. It tells something personal and triggers an intimate emotion.

International artist whose work rests on the dichotomy that exists between memory and oblivion. Memory, in my view, is the indispensable element that ties our body to the world. However, while our culture strives to engrave history with a burin, I am determined to inhibit, deconstruct, even erase my own memory. A vast undertaking, the practice of forgetting…
The body is only the support of this memory, on which it depends, indeed requires. It builds it, shapes it, and transforms it. And if anamnesis, from the Greek, means the rising of memory, for my part I hunt it down in order to better part from it.”