Sylvain Barberot - Suspended spaces

This work is a mold of my bust made of polyurethane foam and covered with a veil of black fabric. It refers to Italian sculpture from the late 18th century. These works, often in marble, depict fully veiled female bodies with breathtaking precision.
An artwork is, by essence, a vanitas. It reflects the artist's desire to objectify oneself to (survive) time and responds to the vanity of the idea of the demiurge artist. Memory is not fixed; it remains to come, never anchoring in an infinity. Its disappearance is its only recourse.

International artist whose work rests on the dichotomy that exists between memory and oblivion. Memory is, in my view, the indispensable element that binds our body to the world. However, and while our culture strives to engrave history with the chisel, I strive to inhibit, to deconstruct, even to erase my own memory. A vast undertaking, the exercise of forgetting… The body is but the support of this memory of which it is dependent, even needy. It builds it, shapes it and transforms it. And if anamnesis translates from Greek as the recall of memory, for my part I hunt it to better separate myself from it.