Sylvain Barberot - Silence
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Silence by Sylvain Barberot is a unique marble work gilded with 22 carat gold, measuring 62 cm wide by 67 cm high and 10 cm deep, weighing 19 kg, hand-signed, created in 2025 in France.
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"Punctum" is the beginning of a series of works titled "epitaph." They are a poetic way of embracing death with poetry by choosing a word selected in order to sublime it. The engraving is heightened with 22-carat gold leaf, as a reminder of funerary iconography.
Punctum has various meanings:
- It is the element of a photograph that pricks, that touches us personally in an unexpected way. It tells a story in the intimate and makes an image come alive that is inscribed in our memories.
- It provokes an emotion or a memory. It tells something personal and triggers an intimate emotion.
International artist whose work rests on the dichotomy that exists between memory and forgetting. Memory is, in my view, 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 on which it depends, even needy. It builds it, shapes it and transforms it. And while anamnesis is translated from Greek as the rising of memory, for my part I hunt it down to better part from it.
"Punctum" is the beginning of a series of works titled "epitaph." They are a poetic way of embracing death with poetry by choosing a word selected in order to sublime it. The engraving is heightened with 22-carat gold leaf, as a reminder of funerary iconography.
Punctum has various meanings:
- It is the element of a photograph that pricks, that touches us personally in an unexpected way. It tells a story in the intimate and makes an image come alive that is inscribed in our memories.
- It provokes an emotion or a memory. It tells something personal and triggers an intimate emotion.
International artist whose work rests on the dichotomy that exists between memory and forgetting. Memory is, in my view, 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 on which it depends, even needy. It builds it, shapes it and transforms it. And while anamnesis is translated from Greek as the rising of memory, for my part I hunt it down to better part from it.
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