Chemin d'arts sacré en Alsace - the Carthusian monastery

In every place where the torrent reaches, all animals will be able to live and abound. Fish will be very plentiful, for this water purifies everything
that it penetrates, and life appears in every place where the torrent comes."
(Ezekiel 47, 9)

Sylvie Abélanet experiments with both intaglio and etching techniques with etching,
aquatint and soft varnish. Inspired by literature and poetry, her work draws up a strange cartography of aquatic,
plant and animal elements. She plays with ruptures and inversions of scale that have the effect of confusing the eye, tipping a flower or a character out of its figurative reality. Sylvie Abélanet is deeply in tune with medieval iconography when she interprets the biblical scene of Paradise, or the Persian poem Song of Birds, especially when it is enriched by the
precise observation of nature. The strength of these images lies as much in the rigor of their composition, the depiction of people and birds, as in the landscapes and still lifes, all treated with the same attention to detail. His plastic vocabulary has been nourished by the symbolism, play of scale and perspective that underpin the narrative weave of his own creation.