Sylvia Bossu | |
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Born | |
Died | 15 July 1995 Chamousset, Savoie, France | (aged 33)
Resting place | Rognaix, Savoie 45°34′55″N 6°27′07″E / 45.581862°N 6.452005°E |
Nationality | French |
Education | École des Beaux-Arts, Dijon |
Notable work | Immédiat (1988) Miroirs de courtoisie (1988) Films cousus (1992) La Mangeuse d’images (1992)[1] |
Style | Found object, installation art |
Movement | Conceptual art |
Partner | Éric Colliard (1982–1995)[2] |
Awards | Prix Évelyne Encelot Femmes & Art (2006) |
Sylvia Bossu (20 June 1962 – 15 July 1995) was a French conceptual artist. After exhibiting her works in Paris, Antwerp, Vienna, Munich or Berlin in the early 1990s, Bossu died prematurely in a car accident in 1995, aged 33. Standing in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp, Bossu "used the language of the ready-made to construct machines that become metaphors for alienation, isolation, and death in everyday life."[3]