Sylvia Bossu

Sylvia Bossu
Born(1962-06-20)20 June 1962
Died15 July 1995(1995-07-15) (aged 33)
Resting placeRognaix, Savoie
45°34′55″N 6°27′07″E / 45.581862°N 6.452005°E / 45.581862; 6.452005
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
Notable workImmédiat (1988)
Miroirs de courtoisie (1988)
Films cousus (1992)
La Mangeuse d’images (1992)[1]
StyleFound object, installation art
MovementConceptual art
PartnerÉric Colliard (1982–1995)[2]
AwardsPrix 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]