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 late 18th‑century Italian sculpture. These works, often in marble, depict fully veiled female bodies with devastating precision.

An artwork 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’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. 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, 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 it, shapes it, and transforms it. And if anamnesis, in Greek, means the ascent of memory, as for me I pursue it in order to better separate myself from it.