Sylvain Barberot - Echo

"Echo" is one of the works arising from a series of works entitled "epitaph." They are a poetic way of embracing death by choosing a word selected to sublimate it. The engraving is highlighted in 22-carat gold to recall the funerary iconography.
And what if the stone could become the echo of the earth on a crest line? Our dead are echoes, and we are their mouthpieces. We carry them, and in the flesh we are only prolongations of their past existence, like a silent echo.

An international artist whose work rests on the dichotomy that exists between memory and oblivion. Memory, in my view, is the indispensable element that links our body to the world. However, and 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, the exercise of forgetting...
The body is only the support of this memory of which it is dependent, even requires. It builds it, shapes it and transforms it. And if anamnesis, derived from Greek, means the rising of memory, for my part I hunt it to better detach myself from it.