Silvi SIMON
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
“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”