Sylvestre Gobart
is a France based visual artist working in the media of photography and video. He uses installation as a means of putting form to the concepts he develops in his pieces. Formally his research in photography is focused on the relation between the topic in which he is working and the material he uses, which gives resonance to the idea of the work. Conceptually, his works revolve around the mechanism of the transformation of identity. Currently he is developing a collaborative project composed of photography/video and sound with Stéphane Garin, a sound artist. This new work is about the relation that we keep with the memory of the Shoa and has been presented in Bayonne, France in march 2009. Recently he had also a close collaboration with Shua group in which he realized a multi-media project in Bayonne, France, Emily Harvey Foundation and Jersey City Musuem in USA. Sylvestre Gobart has shown his work in Spain, France, USA, Senegal, Guatemala and Argentina. He had had solo shows at Galeria sol Del Rio Guatemala, Bienale d Art contemporain de Dakar, Dakar, at ARTEBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina with the Gallery ARTE x ARTE in 2005.
Gruenrekorder:
Stéphane Garin & Sylvestre Gobart: “Gurs. Drancy. Gare de Bobigny. Auschwitz. Birkenau. Chelmo-Kulmhof. Majdaneck. Sobibor. Treblinka” (Gruen 085/11)