Programming
Sylvie Ste-Marie
Paintings
Sylvie St-Marie's works present, to different degrees, geometric forms that appear as fragments of an image to be reconstituted.
In Sylvie Ste-Marie's work, geometric figures appear as fragments of an image to be reconstituted. Triangles, squares and rectangles in multiple shades of gray or color emerge from the blackness and obscurity to form an organic, living mass. In the canvases, to varying degrees, geometric shapes merge into one another, lines fade away; triangles, rectangles and squares merge to create a human appearance. But always, at the heart of Sylvie St-Marie's work, traces of fragmentation remain. In one canvas, a human body is delivered to us, precisely. A body marked by fragmentation, which seems to us to be the effect of welding, of reconstructing a history, an image.
Sylvie Ste-Marie is a self-taught painter. She studied literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal and translation at the Université de Montréal. She worked as a translator for the 3rd International Feminist Book Fair. She makes amateur Super 8 films.