Sylvain Barberot - Suspended spaces

This work is a moulding 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 shocking precision.
An artwork is, by essence, a vanity. It reflects the artist's desire to objectify themselves in order to survive 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 infinity. Its disappearance is its only recourse.

International artist whose work rests on the dichotomy that exists between memory and oblivion. In my view, memory is the indispensable element that links our body to the world. However, while our culture strives to engrave 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 of which it is dependent, even needy. It constructs it, models it, and transforms it. And if anamnesis, from Greek, means the recalling of memory, I, for my part, pursue it to better detach myself from it.