Silvi Simon has been living since the end of 2020 in Moselle in the Dabo forest. She gained her visual art training at the université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg, and in animation cinema at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels. At the same time, she took a number of alternative courses for the laboratory processing of film stock. In 1991, Silvi Simon co-founded the collective Burstscratch , which runs an artisanal cinema laboratory in Strasbourg and works for the creation and distribution of experimental cinema on gelatin-silver film. Initially, his artistic practice is in the field of expanded cinema. She devotes herself to an important work of experimental photography on chemigram, anthotype...
Since 2018 she has been presenting video installations and films in virtual reality.
In recent years, her research has extended to contacts with scientists and she presents work around light presented in installation, video or photography: laser light, phosphorescence, strioscopy, ultra-fast camera ...