Sylvain Barberot - Skull

Moulage 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 an eternal, immutable, and fixed support, the skin covering it seems to flow without stopping. Temporalities confront each other and the darkness of the idea we form of death.
A work of art is, by essence, a vanity. It reflects the artist’s desire to objectify oneself to survive time and answers the vanity of the demiurge-like idea of the artist. Memory is not frozen; it remains to come, never anchoring itself in an infinity. Its disappearance is its only recourse.

An international artist whose work rests on the dichotomy between memory and oblivion.
Memory, in my view, is the indispensable element that links our body to the world. However, while our culture strives to carve 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 only the support of this memory on which it rests, even depends, or is needy. It builds it, models it, and transforms it. And if anamnesis translates from Greek as the rising of memory, for my part I hunt it to better part from it.