E.V.A.
Nous voici dans l’espace ! On retrouve quelques clins d’oeil de films de science-fiction
(E.T, Avatar, X-Files, Alien,Star Wars, …) ainsi que des symboliques autour de l’Astrono-
mie.
about this artwork
(Extra Vehicular Activity).
This canvas projects us to the limits of space and imagination, exploring the cosmic universe through a vision that is both scientific, symbolic and resolutely contextual
porous.
Here we are immersed in the vastness of space, where floating astronomical references
and star visions. Planets, constellations, orbits and symbols related to astronomy
structure the composition, evoking the infinite, the mystery and the quest for knowledge of
humanity facing the cosmos.
In this work, we also find subtle winks to popular culture and
at the science fiction cinema. The attentive look can recognize references to E.T.,
Avatar, X-Files, Alien or Star Wars, integrated with finesse, without breaking the harmo-
the whole. These evocations create a dialogue between science, fiction and
collective fantasies related to alien life and space exploration.
Space is here transformed into a dreamy and symbolic territory, where adventure
human is confused with dream and unknown. The work invites the spectator to a
immersive experience, oscillating between scientific fascination and imaginary cinema-
space remains one of the last major
projection of our hopes and fears.
about this artist
Sylvaine Merlet’s painting is a crossing.
A dive into the visible and invisible layers of the world, where human, nature
and the imagination intertwined. His images are born of a need to hard what escapes
the words: the emotions buried, the collective memories, the silent bonds that unite the
beings.
The look is at the heart of his approach. It is threshold, passage, mirror. It’s through him that he’s
fragility, strength, doubt and hope prevail. The figures that she painted are not
not content to be seen: they look back, inviting the spectator to a meeting
Intimate, almost meditative.
Each canvas is built as a world to explore. Under the apparent unity arise
fragments, symbols, hidden narratives, like so many strata of thought.
The work reveals itself slowly, to the one who agrees to lose his stature,
let time do its work.
The colour is alive, vibrant, sometimes incandescent. She carries raw emotion, guides the
look and circulate energy. It is breath, impulse, inner movement.
Painting becomes an act of binding:
Connect the human to the living, the present to the ancient myths, the real to the imaginary.
In a fragmented world, Sylvaine Merlet’s painting opens one. Resonance space,
of contemplation and dream where everyone can find a forgotten part of himself.
