Barberot Sylvain - suspended spaces

This work is a mold of my bust made in 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 staggering precision.
An artwork is by essence a vanity. It reflects the artist's desire to objectify oneself in order to outlive time and responds to the vanity of the demiurge artist's idea. Memory is not fixed; it remains to come, never anchoring itself in an infinite. Its disappearance is its only recourse.
This work is to be hung on the wall.

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. Yet, 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 demanding. It builds it, shapes it, and transforms it. And if anamnesis, from the Greek for the rising of memory, means the retrieval of memory, I, for my part, pursue it to better separate myself from it.