Myriam Thyes

[1][2] Since 1999, main artistic media of Myriam Thyes are video art, 2D computer animation, photography, and digital imagery.

Among Thyes's video art works in these programs was 'A little Meditation', the animation of the yin yang symbol, shown for example on the big screen at Frankfurt/Main central station.

[4][5] LA Freewaves: Video art could be seen on monitors in stores and on billboards on Sunset Boulevard at the then new media festival 2004 in Los Angeles under artistic director Anne Bray.

Professor Paul Wells about Flag Metamorphoses in his book Re-Imagining Animation: "Thyes's work is a very particular response to what she describes a very human 'double wish' to have both an individual identity and yet belong to a bigger group, often represented through nations, which are themselves 'imagined communities'.

On her choice of flags as iconic Stimuli, Thyes recognises that their symbolism often endures beyond the actual conditions a nation lives through, sometimes remaining largely aspirational (...) Working in such a direct and politicised way, Thyes saw the opportunity to embrace both a democratic approach to the creation of work responsive to a core theme while engaging with other artists, but also in relation to its dissemination to a global audience on the World Wide Web.

On the other hand, the artistic level examines the collapse and revision of largely geometric forms into more amorphous, organic and fluid configurations.

(...) Conceptually, Thyes felt that the best results might be achieved if the metamorphoses themselves took place within a single frame: 'What I have in mind is generally one changing image, not a film with scenes and cuts.'

(...) This use of the formalist limits of the frame, while addressing the conditions of transition and meaning within it, reflects Thyes's background and identity as a visual artist.

She created a collage of images and voices in a two-channel video installation, called From Art Colony Galichnik with love (Macedonia 2010).

The divergence thus highlighted between space, time and individual remains tangible in Thyes’s works, and conveys to the viewer a profound sense of the mood of the people in this city.

Initially what seems like a random visual derive is coherently held together through a detailed narrative that the artist has perceptively encountered and which helps to inform Thyes' personal topography of our city.

RaumWelten, Museum Baerengasse, Zürich, 2013
Malta As Metaphor, Shedhalle Zürich, 2011
Flag Metamorphoses, Halle Zehn, CAP Cologne, Cologne, 2010
Flag Metamorphoses, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, 2008
Flag Metamorphoses, Urban Screens Manchester, 2007