Barberot Sylvain - suspended spaces

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

An artwork is by essence a vanitas. It reflects the artist's desire to objectify themselves 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.

This work is to be hung on the wall.

An 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 burin, I strive to inhibit, to deconstruct, even to erase my own memory. A vast undertaking is the exercise of forgetting… The body is only the support of this memory on which it depends, even requires. It builds it, models it, and transforms it. And if anamnesis is rooted in Greek as the recall of memory, for my part I pursue it to better detach myself from it.