In drawings, installations, performances, and films, Sibylle Burr explores archaic forms, which appear as patterns. Experiencing the surfaces of her artworks in performative processes the artist tries to reach a realm outside space and time. Thus the art of Burr can be regarded as being beyond reason. Here the seemingly mysterious derives solely from the paradoxa, which the attempts of speaking about the visible produce. Burr’s works of art always aim at experiencing and acting in the present moment and in this way include the unity of feeling and thinking. In the performances “tremor” and “nuts” for example, the virtual reality of the projected video and the tangible physical reality of the stage performance condense seemingly divergent levels. For the fragile balanced contrasts in Burr’s performances and video art self-absorption is an essential precondition, and the communication with the audience can only succeed if it has a similar willingness to an open perception and communication process.

www.sibylleburr.com

The Other Side of Heaven. Silk, spray paint, glitter, acrylic paint, transluscent fabric, beads, pearls, rhinestone.

Snow White, Jan-Apr 2009. Mirrors, Acrylic, spray paint, lace, pearls, glitter, fabric on canvas. 16 feet x 8 feet. (500m x 250m)

“Snow White” (2009), a pinkish, whitish polychromatic painting, reflects a cultural construction of femininity. It is a moral story in which the woman is supposed to clean the house and serve the men. The princess is at her most beautiful moment when she is dead, lying down in a glass coffin like an object - she is a commercial herself. The marriage to the prince is a “happy ending”. “Snow White” is a fantasy of total control that becomes monstrous and leads to the insane. The use of mirror is like a dialogue with the sun and the moon. It is also inspired by Borges’ Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, which is a fantasy of mirror and encyclopedia, and a critique of standardized cultural massive pleasure of goods. In today’s world of industrialization and flow of interaction, our most intimate personal desires and fantasies are perhaps merely adaptations, reoccurrences of the same story, sometimes Baroque, sometimes Disney, always prefabricated.

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In my paintings and drawings, I create a new space. I make an airy watery world using colors.

I use a variety of media: Chinese color, watercolor, acrylic, glass pen and brush, charcoal, colored pencil and oil on paper or canvas.

The color I painted was my memory. My memories were translated into the color on a white canvas. The color is able to make an atmosphere and depth in the paintings.

I grew up in countryside of Japan. There is surrounded by mountains and Pacific Ocean. As a child, I loved to stay outside for enjoying the nature. I was interested in the color of sky, ocean and mountains. Those color have completely changed each season.

The essential voice in my work is one of humor, whimsy, playfulness, wonder and beauty.

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