Sylvie Lambert’s paintings and drawings, in oil, acrylic, gouache or colored pencils, describe the sometimes absurd way of life of our Western society. This universe with a falsely candid aesthetic crumbles to gradually reveal a reality made squeaky by the absurdity of the situations described. The artist designs these landscapes, objects or characters from photos, gleaned on the net or taken on the spot, which she combines with her memories and sprinkles with an abundant imagination, to restore improbable associations of ideas

Fueled by her own experience, first in Canada where she grew up, then in Switzerland, the subjects she addresses touch on habitat, food, artificial and disfigured nature, themes painted with a flaming chromatic range. In this imaginary world, halfway between the rebus and the metaphor, the boundaries between decor, reality, oneirism and fiction are intertwined. A backhoe turns into a gigantic and flamboyant scorpion, a tower of Babel balances on trees in the shape of spaghetti forks, a cauliflower hen faces a broccoli turtle. Like word games, his compositions combine improbable elements to create surreal narratives with a message rooted in reality.

Nicole Kunz