Sylvie Julkowski-Egard

Sylvie Julkowski-Egard works by series, drawing inspiration from her immediate environment. The artist reveals the beautiful architecture of Paris, rich still lifes, and her daughter, who is her almost exclusive model. An observation of gender, Julkowski-Egard creates from her personal experience and the human behaviors she observes. She stages particular themes such as rupture, rivalry, and infidelity. Her work is composed of visible reading keys using different symbols. Drawing from her experiences, her genre scenes feature her favorite model: her 26-year-old daughter.

She appreciates painting characters for the atmosphere they emit. Her series "Little Girls" is a representative example. With a focus on the passage of time, Julkowski-Egard has a strong interest in the industrial world, where she transposes the art of portraiture onto objects that have known their glory and are sometimes fading into oblivion. She develops a whole series on transport vehicles, concretizing the effects of time through rust and dilapidation.

Her paintings of everyday life, particularly in her series of still lifes, transpose portrait art to explore the poetic dimension of daily banality. Her work brings out the humble truth of everyday life, a theme dear to her. Finally, urban landscapes, bustling with life—or not—are subjects of great interest that shape her universe and inspire her.