Le Jour se lèv(r)e

Sylvie Cotton pursues a keen interest in presence and its modes of apparition and incarnation. Her work focuses on the adventure of that presence to the self and to others, and also on material and immaterial phenomena, both subtle and manifest. Making art consists of bringing to light the shadings and colours of that encounter, exposing the rich potential of friction and reciprocal influences. The works find fulfillment in an aesthetic of cordiality, of mingling and fusion. Cotton has always worked in diverse media: performance art and art intervention, drawing, photography, installations and writing. She has presented her performance works and installations in Quebec, the United States, Finland, Europe and Japan.