Sylvain Barberot - Skull

A cast of a human skull made of paper and coated with epoxy resin. It is mounted on the wall with two nails and two magnets.
In this work, if time is frozen by using the skull as a timeless, immutable, and fixed support, the skin that covers it, on the contrary, seems to melt away without stopping. Temporalities confront one another, and the darkness of the idea of death we hold.
An artwork is by nature a vanity. It reflects the artist’s desire to objectify himself in order to survive time and responds to the vanity of the demiurge artist’s idea. Memory is not fixed; it remains to come, never anchoring itself in infinity. Its disappearance is its only recourse.
International artist whose work rests on the dichotomy that exists between memory and oblivion. Memory, in my view, is the indispensable element that binds our body to the world. However, while our culture strives to engrave history with a chisel, I strive to inhibit, deconstruct, or even erase my own memory. A vast undertaking, the exercise of forgetting… The body is merely the support of this memory on which it depends, indeed it is needy. It builds it, shapes it, and transforms it. And if the Greek term anamnēsis means the ascent/remembrance, for my part I pursue it in order to better part from it.