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3. Sylvie Deparis
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Notes of biography

Sylvie Deparis was born in Haute-Garonne in 1965. After training at the Toulouse School of Art, she received a diploma in the restoration of paintings from at the Avignon School of Art and undertook a number of restoration missions in Egypt (Karnak Temple 1988-1989, Valley of the Queens 1989-1990, Islamic Palace in Cairo 1991-1992) before devoting herself exclusively to painting.
She now lives in the Gard region, in Domazan, near Avignon, in a natural environment to which she feels deeply linked.
She draws sustenance from the great painters she loves, Jean Capdeville, Pierre Tal Coat, Far Eastern philosophies and her travels to other lands, most recently to Vietnam.
In her line-based drawings and paintings, Sylvie Deparis finds inspiration in what for her is the essential nature of the plant world, a dynamic balance of flowing energies, a circulation of living breath. She seeks, by tracing the rhythms of living forms, to transcribe a sense of oneness.
This entails a bodily identification with the vibrations that stir the plant world and emanate from it. Working in a natural setting or with plant forms brought back into her studio, she enters into the intimate life of trees, branches, interlaced lianas.
She experiences their tactility, their roughness, to a point where she feels in her own body the “taste” of their being and, by absorption into the motion of breathing, attention to the realm of the senses, a gaze that opens into a kind of feeling vision and embraces the Presence, she allows herself to be invaded by irreducible reality, the world of metamorphosis.
Sylvie Deparis relies mainly on line to express in her art this vibration of impalpable forces, lines that are repeated, crisscrossed, interlaced, streams that overrun one another, palpitations that intertwine.
And by working in series, by the rhizomic development of variations of a single perception, she associates fragmentation and continuity: inevitable fragmentation of sense perception which is experienced only in the moment, and continuity or rather “continuum” of Totality, which underlies her approach.
She also partners writers in the production of artist books - livres d’artistes - to which she contributes directly original unique works that partake of the same spirit as the paired texts, or enter into an exchange or dialogue with them. First as a contributing artist, then as a publisher (SD Editions, founded in 2009), Sylvie Deparis has partnered more than twenty books, with texts and poems by Bernard Teulon-Nouailles, Michel Butor, René Pons, Christian Skimao, Andrée Appercelle, Jean-Claude Villain, Patricia Dupuis, Jean Joubert, Régine Detambel, Frédéric Jacques Temple, Bernard Vargaftig, Jean-Damien Roumieu, Gaston Puel, Antoine Graziani, Béatrice Machet, Joël-Claude Meffre.

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