Sylvie Auvray

Sylvie Auvray plays with different materials and techniques including paintings, bronze, plaster and aluminium sculptures and ceramics. Working on various scales either with painting or using ceramic and plaster, ranging from the large to the miniscule, she combines primitive forms with sharp and strident colours. Her works, including wearable items such as jewelry and masks and totems taking on human and animal forms, have a nostalgic narrative quality, and at the same time are imbued with energy by the formless childhood fears, barbaric experiments, and destructive joys evoked by their bizarre wounds and disturbing deformations.

Her work has been exhibited in a large number of international institutions such as MAMCO, Le Capucin, MO.CO. Panacée, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas during her residency; MAMVP, Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; FRAC Champagne Ardenne; Consortium, Dijon; Dairy Art Center, London; Musée d’art moderne Grand-duc Jean, Luxembourg; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Centre d’art contemporain Circuit, Lausanne; Palais de Tokyo, Paris.