Sylvie Auvray
Strange Things In My Soup

There is this scientific theory biologists call the “primordial soup” (or primitive…) which seeks to define and model or even reproduce the first form of life on Earth. This prebiotic environment in which life would have taken shape from protocells.

Do we see the presence of such a soup in the art of Sylvie Auvray, which will reveal the bio-chemical components at work in the formal genesis of the artist’s art?

It seems that is the case, and that her soup is to be found in the intellectual gesticulation which never ceases to inhabit her reflection, her endless quest for new forms, for unexcepted mixes of materials, techniques, fabrics, stories, situated and referenced objects assembling cultural and pop-cultural fragments from the East and the West, sources of new works. The primary sources will not now be fully unearthed…

The series to be seen in Milan offers visual comfort and colorful attraction – reminding binary partitions detectable in her Pompon Brooms, brazenly displaying the majorette’s baton, hardened in colored and rough ceramic extended with tufts of tow, frizzy ribbons of plastic and angel hair or rough hair of straw in perpetual agitation and joyful movement during the dances of the said cheerleaders or pompom girls. They are dressed this time in two-dimensional compositions where approximately rectangular pieces of fabric attached to firm plasterboards, the smooth support for pictorial events to happen. [Excerpt from the text by Franck Gautherot]