Sybille Bibelas

She worked for 20 years in the world of fashion and image as an artistic director, modeling agent and producer. She is a founding member of Basque International magazine. Born into a family of artists, Sybille Bibelas was immersed in a creative universe from a very young age. Her mother, a jewelry designer, her maternal great-grandfather, the Swiss painter Rodolphe-Théophile Bosshard, her paternal great-uncle, the sculptor Milo Martin, have undoubtedly influenced her artistic career. The territory, an anchorage in the landscape, the expression of the sensitivity of a tree, of a stone and the light of the moment are present in all these looks. Her artistic practice is articulated around nature and the perception of the intimate. Returning to the idea of traveling through landscapes, she develops a photographic work where space becomes the moment of attention, of the gaze that listens to what builds us. From the form, the freedom to let these photographic "states" wander is born through a rereading of the instant, confronting the free graphic expression with the photographic instant frozen in memory. Mixing techniques, his work raises the idea of the vision of the ideal. The line is reminiscent of engraving, inviting us to a secret time, while the color brings us back to the real and the emotions that run through us. Mixing abstraction and figuration, color becomes movement. This exchange of materials and impressions reveals a mysterious, transcendent and profound nature. Sybille Bibelas raises a whole questioning about our perception of the image, of painting in front of the memorial fragility of our relationship with time, of the multiplicity of the image in our daily life, of the emotions that this process generates in the look towards the other, of the notion of place as idealization of the experience and expression of oneself. His pictorial work questions, interrogates the idea of the marvelous and the perception of our nature, sometimes naive as a first glance, somber as an instinctive fear, peaceful in the eternity of the instant. At the same time, he builds a work on the question of representation and belonging, exploring the codes and the symbolism of the object as an expression of memory and intimacy.