Sylvie Selig

Blaise Adilon
Blaise Adilon
Blaise Adilon

Venue

URDLA Villeurbannne

Metropolitan area

Born 1941 in Nice, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.

These six etchings, which Sylvie Selig made using copperplate and/ or aquafortis and/or aquatint after her residency at URDLA in April 2022, lay bare a hybrid world where human and animal creatures are grafted together – as in the man with a hare’s head, which calls to mind the rabbit in Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland (1865) and the one in David Lynch’s film Inland Empire (2006). These works depict unrequited love, failed seductive gambits and many other implicit and enigmatic liaisons. Inspired by art history, literature and the cinema, Sylvie Selig’s figurative work is inhabited by strange and sometimes frightful visions, which arouse contrary emotions ranging from cruelty to affection.

Also on view at the Fagor factories and in The many lives and deaths of Louise Brunet at the macLYON.

Sans titre, 2022
Eching and aquatint

Sans titre, 2022
Eching and drypoint

Sans titre, 2022
Aquatint, etching and scraper

Sans titre, 2022
Aquatint, etching and drypoint

Sans titre, 2022
Eching and drypoint