“It may be the truth that America can only be seen by a European, since he alone, will discover here the perfect simulacrum-that of immanence and material transcription of all values”
Jean Beaudrillard “America”
“Cadastres Exquis” maps emotion onto the cityscape of San Francisco, blending painting and text into poetic layers of memory and sensation.
Fogged-in - Acrylic on canvas - 40x40cm
Golden Gate V - Acrylic on canvas - 40x40cm + HD “Deep-Paint” video loop
Golden Gate IV- Acrylic on canvas - 40x40cm
The text, half-lost and half-revealed, mirrors and resists possession. It invites drift. And in doing so, it becomes a kind of liquid thinking—a reverie unfolding across canvas.
North Lake 6 - Acrylic on canvas - 40x40cm
The Eye of The Park (extract) - 4min HD video (Horizontal & vertical format) + text + soundtrack - Projection, installation
ALPHA BAY CITY
Gentrification silenced the old signs—Doreau, A Franco-Californian digital nomad, rewires them into a new language of resistance, memory, and urban myth.
Alpha Bay city: 3 min HD video + soundtrack, prints, acrylic paintings on canvas and board
LA PHYGITAL DIARIES
LA Diaries “Deep Paintings” is a visual diary where pigments and emotions intertwine. Each painting captures a daily mood, like a color script, illuminated by Californian light and extended into digital space through AI. A sensory journey between intimate abstraction and immersive landscapes.
DIGITAL-VIDEOS
My digital videos reimagine the city as an emotional and poetic space, combining abstraction, rhythm, and original soundtracks to trace movement, memory, and change
PHYGITAL WANDERER
Sylvain Doreau is a transdisciplinary artist exploring emotional memory, disappearance, and the urban landscape.
From Paris to Dublin via San Francisco and Los Angeles, his work — painting, video, text, and digital experiments — traces the sensitive strata of urban experience.
His practice, shaped by cycles of rupture and rebirth, weaves a living memory of the places he has inhabited, constantly evolving.
Over a 30-year professional journey in Animation and Games, Doreau has experienced cycles of intense creation, burnout, layoffs, and artistic rebirths with his personal Art practice. Rather than closing a chapter, each rupture becomes a driving force: it amplifies the memory of the place left behind, fuels introspection, and infuses his painting and digital series with a living nostalgia, where memory transforms into fertile ground for creation. With every migration, his work expands, between loss and renewal.
➔ Discover his series Cadastres Exquis, The North Lake, and Alphabet Bay City, LA video diaries, fragments of an intimate cartography of the contemporary world.
