Since holding a Master in Visual Arts with a focus on art in public spaces (ÉDHÉA, Sierre, Switzerland, 2022), Sylvie Godel has been developing projects that explore relational art and writing. She materializes words through clay and thread and creates devices that invite others to observe the sky and explore the body's place within urban space.
Active since 2004 after a BFA in Ceramics (HEAD – Geneva, Switzerland, 2004), her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and design boutiques. Some of her pieces have entered the collection of the mudac, Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains (2006, 2022). She also holds a CAS in Cultural Studies from the University of Neuchâtel (2023) and curates Le Salon de Sylvie, an alternative art space in Lausanne.
Jewelry, as an intimate extension of the body, is part of her varied artistic practice—objects that touch, embrace, and reveal. The body is both subject and medium. A handshake, a touch, the pressing of palms—gestures that connect yet vanish as soon as they occur. How can we preserve these fleeting traces? Through a collection of handprints, an imprint of encounters, a materialization of relational art.
For her, jewelry is not just ornamentation but a means of connection, an expression of the human condition. It makes visible, on the body, inner states of being—transforming emotions, interactions, and ephemeral moments into wearable forms or artistic installations.
Lots of Tears is a reflection on a difficult chapter of my life. A burnout led me into an eleven-month depression, during which I cried almost every day.
What to do with all these tears? Let them flow? Wipe them away with a handkerchief? Or turn them into something else?
Searching – Observing – Collecting – Sleeping – Shaping – Listening – Embodying – Materializing – Defining -Speaking -Reading -Writing -Walking -Stitching Thinking -Imagining -Caring -Letting it come – Documenting
Over time, the restless water crystallized into pearls of Bone China—the whitest, most noble of porcelains. A process of recovery, yet one that preserves the imprint of sorrow through a collection of bodily artifacts: sculptural and functional necklaces and brooches in clay, complemented by perforated paper handkerchiefs and cotton ribbons embroidered with expressions on tears.
Beyond giving material form to this ordeal, the work seeks to understand it—through definitions drawn from dictionaries and anatomical manuals, accompanying the jewelry collection, which may itself transform into an artistic installation.
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