Sylvie Fanchon

Sylvie Fanchon appropriates images, words and sentences from Cortana, the Windows voice assistance software, as well as from film titles, or even from playing games with her initials. These sentences, like “I can learn to understand you better”, taken out of their context, take on, through a reversal of meaning, a philosophical and even utopian dimension.

With humor and irony, the artist displays on her canvases and painted walls – a true reflection on the spatial arrangement of art – her reflection on man/machine relationships or even on the collection of private information, as evidenced by the two exhibitions “My name is Cortana” at Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, and “What can I do to help you?” at the Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux, which gave birth to this book.

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