Sylvie Macìas Dìaz works across photography, drawing, painting, and installation. In her established approach to recycle all and everything, Sylvie Macìas Dìaz uses market crates and builds organic architectures, ecological houses and ecosophical buildings. The poetry of this material resides in their life span that carries the accumulated memories of the past. In contrast to the idea of zen architecture, she assigns to her constructions plans or objects which by ...
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Sylvie Macìas Dìaz works across photography, drawing, painting, and installation.
In her established approach to recycle all and everything, Sylvie Macìas Dìaz uses market crates and builds organic architectures, ecological houses and ecosophical buildings. The poetry of this material resides in their life span that carries the accumulated memories of the past.
In contrast to the idea of zen architecture, she assigns to her constructions plans or objects which by their functions of the conformist bourgeois system mainly evoke the excessive consumption capitalist model, therefore destabilising any biological and environmental ideas. A reflection on ecology but also on our current financial crisis: the relocalisation, the precarity, the housing criss and the new poors. On the other hand, she loves to unveil, denounce what our consumer society offer us as being compliant societal stereotypes and domestic happiness. She demonstrates and shows in a cynical way the social order mechanisms which functions as a huge symbolic machine tending to ratify the male domination on which it is based.
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