artist, Paris
interview and portrait by OLIVIER ZAHM
OLIVIER ZAHM — We met in the early ’90s. I remember it was when you were hanging around with Bernhard Willhelm.
SYLVIE AUVRAY — Yes, hanging around with Bernhard Willhelm, Gaspard Yurkievich, and Martine Sitbon. It was another time, a more collective context. But painting requires true solitude. It was fantastic back then. I must have been around 19, at the center of that slightly crazy effervescence that happens around fashion. The events, the shoots, meeting people. I loved the clothes. I loved wearing them, but strangely I’ve never thought about it or thought of being a stylist. Honestly, at the beginning, the idea of becoming an artist completely panicked me. I was sure no one would ever buy…
