Photography · Objects · Installations
Paris / Suresnes
Since 1996
Walls have
a memory.
An approach · thirty years of looking
Photographing
the trace.
Some photographs capture the traces on walls directly. Others bring together film or digital shots to reveal a place that exists nowhere else.
For thirty years, Sylvie Barco has walked through cities, archiving their signs and turning her photographs into diptychs, collages, objects and installations. Places pass; their stories go on.
Discover her storyWall Street · photographic diptychs
Two walls photographed in two different places give birth to a third.
01 / Explore
The series
Composed photographs, direct photographs, then works that take shape in space.
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Composed photographs
Shots taken on film or digitally become diptychs, overlays and collages. Each image opens a place that did not exist.
Two walls photographed in two different places give birth to a third.
Hundreds of film shots compose nine image-worlds.
Two fragments of a journey meet on the same roll of film.
Portraits of women meet the remains of the American West.
02 /
Direct photographs
Reality, seen up close: the marks and details of walls become the image.
03 /
From wall to object
The photographs leave the print to become installations and works to hold in your hand.
A work in space
The street steps
into the frame.
With Big Wall, photographs of walls and skateboarding and fragments of notebooks become a place to walk through. With Tiny Wall, the wall returns to the scale of the hand.
See the installations
At the studio
See the works
differently.
The materials, the prints, the blue backs of the Tiny Walls: meeting a work continues at the studio in Suresnes, by appointment.
Visit the studioMeet in Paris
Upcoming
dates.
Occasional pop-up stores to discover the works, editions and objects in person.
Follow the pop-ups