Silvi SIMON

Since the mid-90s, the artist has been developing a work that is part of the wider cinema movement. She is particularly interested in the chemigram, a creative process combining painting and photography.

Exhibitions

2018

Chimie lumineuse

SIT DOWN gallery

22.09.18 – 14.12.18

Biography

Silvi Simon (born 1970 in Livry-Gargan, Seine-Saint-Denis) lives and works in Strasbourg. She gained her visual arts training at the Université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg and in animation cinema at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels. At the same time, she took a number of alternative courses for the laboratory processing of film stock, notably at Ateliers MKT in Grenoble.
In 1991, Silvi Simon co-founded the collective Burstscratch, which runs an artisan cinema laboratory in Strasbourg and works for the creation and distribution of experimental cinema on gelatin-silver film. Her early practice explored the fields of expanded cinema. Over the last twenty years, her immersives installations have been shown in numerous venues around the world. Since 2013, the artist has been engaged in extensive experimental photography work on the chemigram. She also realizes minimal lighting installations with laser pointers. During a residency in Stuttgart with the French Institute, Kunstiftung Baden-Württemberg and Ceaac Strasbourg, she started a new video installation work : Dys Focus, n°1.

Solo Shows

2018
– Dys-Focus n°1, Nature collection, Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines, Strasbourg

2016
– Silvi Simon, Yves Iffrig gallery, Strasbourg

2014
– Silvi Simon, Yves Iffrig gallery, Strasbourg

2012
– Filmatruc à verres n°4, Orage, Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines, Strasbourg

2011
– Filmatruc en construction, La Chambre, Strasbourge
– Filmatruc, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

2008
– Filmatruc,, The Film Gallery, RE: Voir, Paris

2003
– Lieu de Passage, Stimultania, Strasbourg

Group Shows

2016
– L’OEil du collectionneur, Comme une respiration, collection Madeleine Millot-Durrenberger, Musée d’Art moderne de Strasbourg

2015
– Sans Titre, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse
– Apparitions – Révélations, Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne
– Ateliers Nomades, Pilsen 2015, Pilsen, Czech Republic

– Temps fort Lux ! In partnership with l’Année de la lumière, Besançon

2014
– Un cercle n’est qu’un point dilaté, In Extremis, Strasbourg

2012
– Collectif Burstscratch, l’Aubette 1928, Festival Ososphère, Strasbourg

2009
– Filmatruc à verres n°2, Oiseaux, Plug In, Bâle, Suisse
– Filmatruc à verres n°1, Pierre, L6 Kunsthaus, Fribourg-en-Brisgau, Allemagne

2008
– Installation La Byrinthe/Filmatruc, Espace culturel Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg

2006
– Installation at the Main d’oeuvre for the release of the review Exploding N°12, Paris

2005
– Filmatruc, Festival National du Film d’animation, Auch

2002
– XXL, Lieu Unique, Nantes

Artistics collaborations (selection)

2016
– SPLASH ! Multi-projection installation with Vivian Ostrovsky, CCA, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2012
– Ocean Bazar with Vivian Ostrovsky, les Voutes, for the 30 years of Lightcone, Paris

2011
– Ocean Bazar with Vivian Ostrovsky, Galerie Solar, Vila do Conde, Festival Curtas, Portugal

Festivals (selection)

2018
– Dys-Focus n°1, Nature collection , Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany

2015
– Regards, performance, Mire, Nantes ; Espace en cours with Braquage, Paris ; La Filature,
Mulhouse, France

2014
– Festival Cinema experimental frances, Caixa, Curitiba, Brazil
– Festival Impetus, Belfort, France

2011
– Rencontre des labos, Festival 25FPS, Zagreb, Croatia
– Cinéma Nova, Brussels, Belgium

2009
– Festival des cinémas différents, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris, France
– Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France

2008
– 7th P.A.F. Annual of Animated Film Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic
– 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

2007
– biennale de Wro, Wrocław, Poland

Publications

“Silvi Simon, Chimie Lumineuse “, with an essay of Dominique Païni. Co-edited monograph by the Yves Iffrig gallery and In Extremis, 2018

“Dys-Focus, n°1 – Nature collection” exhibition catalogue of digital installations, editions Institut Français de Stuttgart, 2018

“Ecrans, Expanded Cinéma”, under the direction of Raphaël Jaudon , Dario Marchiori , Luc Vancheri, text by Frédérique Devaux : « Architexture(s) interactive(s) élargie(s) de Silvi Simon », Classiques Garnier, 2015-1, nº 3

“Fabriques du cinéma expérimental”, Éric Thouvenel & Carole Contant, interviews with Martin Arnold, Frédérique Devaux, Olivier Fouchard, Ken Jacobs, Christian Lebrat, Rose Lowder, Nicolas Rey, Silvi Simon, José Antonio Sistiaga, éditions Paris Expérimental, 2014

“Kinética : lieux d’expérimentations cinématographiques en Europe”, Editions La Passe du Vent, 2011“

Exploding n°10+1,” revue d’analyse de l’expérimentation cinématographique, Paris“

Exploding n°9″, revue d’analyse de l’expérimentation cinématographique, Paris

Press

Libération, 9 novembre 2018 – Poiret, Dominique : Silvi SIMON : “Ce qui me plaît dans la création de chimigrammes, c’est que je deviens tributaire des outils.”

Ideat, novembre 2018 – Andrieux, Béatrice : “La magie de la chimie”

Artpress.com, 27 novembre 2018 – Ronceray, Sébastien : “Chimie Lumineuse”