SYLC

Human Birds & Sanctum

Artist Statement

From painting to drawing and sculpture, visual artist SylC places humanity at the centre of her work. Strongly tinged with dreamlike imagery, her work reveals our true identity, our paradoxes, our dualities...

By frequently associating humans with animals or plants, the artist highlights the links between beings and those we maintain with nature; she emphasises hybridisation and metamorphosis, symbols of the complexity of our personalities, but also of adaptation, renewal and the perpetual evolution of our identity. The bodies are treated with delicacy and transparency, as if to better detach the soul from the physical envelope. SylC is also interested in the delicate transition from childhood to adulthood, the loss of innocence that comes with it, and our gradual construction as individuals. As if to awaken us further, the artist deliciously plays with our senses, using the space between the viewer and the work as a revealer. She thus seeks to awaken intimate sensations and perceptions within us, bringing out deep emotions and feelings that suddenly make us so human.

In this way, SylC appeals to our unconscious and reveals what cannot be seen. Her work seeks to trace things back to their origins, to a journey to the source where the sayable and the unsayable collide. Behind SylC's ethereal and phantasmagorical visions, however, lies a certain reality. But the artist encourages us to look further when interpreting her mysterious work, encouraging us to discover new, infinite territories that are still unknown to our perception.