Sylvain Barberot - Suspended spaces

This work is a mold of my bust made in polyurethane foam and covered with a veil of black fabric. It refers to late 18th-century Italian sculpture. These works, often in marble, depict fully veiled female bodies with astonishing precision.

An artwork is by nature a vanitas. It reflects the artist's desire to objectify themselves in order to (survive) time and responds to the vanity of the idea of the artist-demiurge. Memory is not fixed; it remains to come without ever anchoring in an infinite. Its disappearance is its only recourse.

International artist whose work rests on the dichotomy that exists between memory and forgetfulness. In my view, memory is the indispensable element that links our body to the world. However, while our culture strives to engrave history with a burin, I devote myself to inhibiting, deconstructing, or even erasing my own memory. A vast undertaking, the exercise of forgetting...
The body is only the support of this memory of which it is dependent, even needy. It builds it, models it and transforms it. And if anamnesis translates from Greek as the return of memory, for my part I pursue it to better detach myself from it.