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Thyl
Thyl
is a French art director/graphic designer, born in 1969, living in the
south of France. He attended a few art-schools in the late 80's. Back then
his main focus was on painting, but he also made pictures by other methods
(photography, collages, etc.). He's now working on web design, graphic
arts and digital pictures.
In 2002 Thyl and his girlfriend Sarah decided to make use of the virtual
characteristic of the internet to create an imaginary character,
semi-fictitious and "in-progress". Sarah would be the model, it
was in April, so "Sarah
April" was born... The goal was to work on reality/fiction,
privacy/exhibition, shuffling those cards and see what goes on. Exploring
the connections between celebrity, the body, worship and the
hyper-mediated experience of the internet. The formula seems to work out
rather well. Quickly, people were very curious about Sarah April, who she
is, what her thing is, is she an actress? etc... The combination of
Sarah's powerful acting and the web's speed turned this character to
somebody real - this project wouldn't have been possible without the very
unique characteristics of the web. Now Sarah and Thyl are married, and
work as a duet on this project. Sarah April became an icon for a Belgian
design company, has been on magazines covers, fashion series, etc...,
they're also working on short movies. They still don't know how far it'll
go.
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