Bologna in Lettere 10th
BĂBÉL
stati di alterazione
ARTE-FATTI CONTEMPORANEI
a cura di Maria Korporal
Myriam Thyes
Smart Pantheon
Myriam Thyes
The visual artist from Switzerland and Luxembourg lives in Dusseldorf and Zurich. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dusseldorf 1986-1992. Since 1994 she participates internationally in exhibitions and festivals. Myriam Thyes has received several scholarships, awards and grants. She is represented by imai Foundation. Her media are video art, animation and digital imagery.
Artist Statement
My themes and visual researches deal with powerful symbols, myths and signs from architecture,
society, politics, movies and religions. My artworks are explorations of their meanings, a questioning, reevaluation, and creations of new associations. In order to undermine entrenched representations, I sometimes work directly with them, contradict or re-interpret them with visual means, or focus on their hidden aspects. Using video, animation, collage, abstraction, and found footage, well-known figures undergo transformations, start to communicate and build new relations. Symbols of identities turn into elements of dialogues.
SMART PANTHEON
All kinds of people are using their smartphones. The displays don’t show any apps – only the sensual movements of the hands. Each pair of hands plays both roles from Michelangelo’s
“Creation of Adam” at the Sistine Chapel: God the father and Adam, whose fingers touch each other. Smartphones are the new saints to which we cling and who guide us on our ways – they are the amulets of our time.
www.thyes.com/en/work/smart-pantheon-2016