Le barbu (2018) Sculpture by Sylvie Bublex

Sylvie Bublex is a contemporary French artist. Her distinctive artistic essence lies in the diverse array of techniques, mediums, and materials she employs, guided by an unrestrained and wandering imagination. A fusion of tenderness, audacity, and cynicism, she sculpts, carves, shapes, arranges, and paints, utilizing clay, papier-mâché, plaster, resin, wood, weathered metals, aged objects, as well as elements like rope, fabric, leaves, and feathers – gathered through her journey and inspiration.

Her remarkably unique body of work captures the dissonance and chaos of the world, offering a response to the spectacle of modernity while exploring the vulnerability of our convictions and lives. It beckons us into a realm of imagination, where the darkest shadows illuminate, the extraordinary becomes disconcerting, and where the most profound abysses enlighten.

Fantastic entities, part-human, part-animal, part-angels, and part-demons, prompt introspection about our animalistic essence, our origins, and the scars of our spirits. As though we are all wounded creatures, steeped in vanity and pride, confined within a colossal enclosure where each solitary being fiercely battles for survival in a fading world.

Amidst joy and humor, life and death converge in a macabre dance, a celebration both grim and fantastical. The artist persists in her work, urging contemplation on the destiny of this intricately afflicted world.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1968
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists