Multidisciplinarity, installation, performance
Sylvie Blocher’s works are conceived from filmic devices that question form, format, relationship to the other, identities and genre.
After «Déçue, la mariée se rhabilla», a manifesto created in 1991 addressing the question of modernity, she launched the concept of “Universal Local Art” which attempts to “rethink an authoritarian modernity from the perspective of otherness” and to oppose the mechanisms of social and emotional control with a practice of “decolonization of the self”. She then undertakes to “give the word back to the faces”. In 1992, she began the Living Pictures series, based on “sharing the artist’s authority” with people she met through advertisements, without casting. She performs dissensus and creolization, conscious of a post-colonialist state of the world.
At the same time, she created with the urban architect François Daune, the artistic collective Campement urbain, which works on the political forms of public space in the new urbanities. In 2012, the collective and the architect Tim Williams were awarded the Australian Urban Planning Grand Prize for the centre of the city of Penrith, in Western Sydney, which was redesigned based on what the inhabitants had to say. Sylvie Blocher is represented in national and international collections (SFMoma, Mudam, Centre Pompidou, AGO, Mukha…) and regularly exhibits in international museums and biennials (Venice, Guangzhou, Liverpool…).
