BIO Sylvie Rochette studied art and art history at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University and has exhibited her work in Quebec and the rest of Canada. She has made works of public art and appears in the Dictionnaire historique de la sculpture québécoise au XXe siecle. Ladislas Kadyszewski has lived in Quebec since 1992. After obtaining his diploma of collegial studies (DEC) in photography in 1995, he continued his artistic practice alongside his career with corporations and foundations in Montreal. The two artists have collaborated for twenty years and have chosen to create the duo SYLLAD to underscore the theme of the tree already present in their respective work.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE The duo concurs with the idea of the scientist and populariser Michel Leboeuf, according to whom “what you see around you is not a forest; it is the result of an accumulation of relations, interrelations and interactions.” Their thesis is that the term “connections” does not work without the balance and recognition of our origins in nature. Have we given too large a role to technology in our lives as humans, isolating and weakening us? And if today’s innovation were to return to our roots, to this network which nourishes us ...
PROJECT Syllad’s project is entitled TRANS-HUMANCE, volet Baie-Saint-Paul — Les arbres nous observent et se disent: “Pauvres humains . . . ils sont complètement déconnectés!” Digital art, 3D sculptures, optical fibres and citizen action are the components of this project. Sculptures called RACIEL will be created out of tree branches from the town of Baie-Saint-Paul and connected with disseminating optical fibres. The public will be invited to identify a tree in town with meaning for them and to share the connection between them and this tree in particular.
