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 references Italian sculpture from the end of the 18th century. These works, often in marble, represent female bodies entirely veiled with staggering precision.
A work of art is, by essence, a vanity. It reflects the artist's desire to objectify oneself in order to survive time and responds to the vanity of the demiurge artist's idea. Memory is not fixed; it remains to come without ever anchoring itself in infinity. Its disappearance is its only recourse.

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. However, while our culture strives to engrave history with a burin, I strive to inhibit, to 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 builds, models and transforms it. And if anamnesis translates from Greek as the ascent of memory, for my part I pursue it in order to better detach myself from it.