Chloé Silbano｜The Rite of Spring

Artist Chloé Silbano presents a dynamic spatial dialog through the deep fusion of limbs and artificial boundaries. With almost unconscious natural movement, the dancers follow the ancient culture where dance is the core of rituals - the body is used as a medium to obtain guidance and reconfigure order, thus reconnecting and returning to the power of nature.

Chloé Silbano

Chain, 2022

Oil on canvas

114h x 145w cm

She graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts inParis in 2012 and then studied for a master's degree in contemporary creation and technology at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure dela Création Industrie in Paris. She currently lives and works in Beijing and Paris. She is aguest artist at the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales and conducts research projects at La Fabrique des Récit. She has also been a residentartist at ArtSurvey 8 in Beijing, China. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Musee Saint-Ouen-Pierre-Cardin, the Pernod Ricard Foundation, Paris, and the ThaddaeusRopac Gallery, Paris.

Chloé Silbano

Flying Buttress, 2023

Oil on canvas, diptych

190h x 200w cm

Chloé is a transmedia experimental artist who expresses her questioning of the relationship between these technologies and the connection between enigma and revelation through paintings, drawings, installations and performance art. She has participated in exhibitions at Gr_und, Germany; Fernet-Branca Foundation, Basel; L'Approche, Brussels; as well as in Sicily, Italy; and Armenia, among others. 2023, she participated in an artist-in-residence program at the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in France. She was awarded the 2020 Yishu8 Prize and has exhibited her work in China at the Beijing Art House, the National Art Museum, the Beidaihe Circle Art Center, and HdM Gallery.

Installation view of The Rite of Spring, March 8, 2025 - April 20, 2025, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai © Courtesy of Nan Ke Gallery, Photographed by Runxin.

Chloé Silbano carries out actions according to different media, painting, video, performance.She seeks to develop mental protocols, born of observations of the environment, the world (labor, weight, property, constraints) or things more innocuous, sensible, but always by making it a particular experience, through experimentation.

Chloé Silbano in the studio © Courtesy of the artist

Chloé has been drawing for as long as she can remember. From the beginning, drawing came more naturally to her than talking. Drawing was a way of composing her existence in the world. She studied graphic design and then entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. But even after graduating with honors, it was a long time before she dared to call herself an artist, because it was too important to her. Since then, she has worked every day with joy and confidence in her future.

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