Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes

YEAR

[2024]

CATEGORY

[Video art]

[OVERVIEW]



A ritual to honour the life and death of my father. Two month before his passing, I had promised to bring him to visit a prehistorical cave in the Dordogne region. As I live my life in the practice of dancing with life and death, two weeks after his passing I became pregnant with my daughter.


I brought his ashes to release them into the river, entering the cave like entering a womb. The ritual connected the living and the dead, the ancestor and the unborn, the joy and grief.






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Sylvie Barbier, Ritual Artist of the Second Renaissance and co-founder of Life Itself.


Seeking to find the sublime through art. To highlight the beauty of imperfection and bring us present to the depth of life.


Marrying the artistic, political and spiritual

© 2025 Sylvie Barbier - All rights reserved

Sylvie Barbier, Ritual Artist of the Second Renaissance and co-founder of Life Itself.


Seeking to find the sublime through art. To highlight the beauty of imperfection and bring us present to the depth of life.


Marrying the artistic, political and spiritual

© 2025 Sylvie Barbier - All rights reserved

Sylvie Barbier, Ritual Artist of the Second Renaissance and co-founder of Life Itself.


Seeking to find the sublime through art. To highlight the beauty of imperfection and bring us present to the depth of life.


Marrying the artistic, political and spiritual

© 2025 Sylvie Barbier - All rights reserved

Sylvie Barbier, Ritual Artist of the Second Renaissance and co-founder of Life Itself.


Seeking to find the sublime through art. To highlight the beauty of imperfection and bring us present to the depth of life.


Marrying the artistic, political and spiritual

© 2025 Sylvie Barbier - All rights reserved