Sylvain BARBEROT - le ruban de Möbius

The molding of my silicone-elastomer-coated bust sits on a mirrored stainless steel plate. Its slightly curved posture invites it to look at its reflection. Its porcelain-like skin melts like wax in the sun to spread across the surface of the mirror. It seems to detach from its own skin to cover its own reflection and drown its double. The moment seems grave and tense. The transformation is imminent, there where two protagonists face each other and merge. This is here to image the analysis of the artist's work... The artist's body looking at his own production, his interiority, as one observes a stranger whose doors one can glimpse opening to us.
The Möbius ribbon is a geometric form that unfolds in space to end up looping on itself like the infinity sign in mathematics (∞). The mold derived from my own torso is coated with the material that was used to create the mold. A mold cast, in short. The ribbon contorts and closes back onto itself. In the same way, this is the artist's body looking at his reflection, which is as much the work of the artist as the reflection of his work.
...and the ribbon closes again. sweat on its skin in the thickness of the reflection.

There are two versions of this work. One rests on a black mirrored stainless steel plate and the other on a gray mirrored stainless steel plate. The two busts are completely identical.