Sylvie Ungauer is a young artist who lives in Orléans, France. Before settling in the Région Centre, she has participated in numerous European projects. She has been among those who obtained a "Pépinière Européenne" grant in Dortmund Kunst Europa Frankreich, exhibited in Ludwiburg Kunst Europa Frankreich. In collaboration with Suzanne Stôvhase, she organized "Expedition Europa" which simultaneously invested several places in France and Germany. A number of personal exhibitions have been devoted to her, among which at the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Recently, she has been welcomed at La Box in Bourges, and at the École Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Tours, France, each time within the frame of a stay followed by an exhibition.

This catalogue was made for Sylvie Ungauer's exhibition "At Home" which was presented at the FRAC Centre and which comprises new elements produced by the artist between November 1999 and January 2000, during her stay at the Calder Studio in Saché. Sylvie Ungauer is interested in the relations and systems that give structure to our society, but also in the relationship between the individual, his environment he or she inhabits and the outside world. Besides, she favours the use of materials which have a role of carriers - such as video, fibre optics or the Internet network - establishing a sort of interactivity with the public. This relationship that sets itself up between the work, the public and their presentation into space is inherent to her approach. Sylvie Ungauer's work makes us realize that new technologies which link people through a screen are deeply changing the means of communication and existing relationship patterns.

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