"Empowering, individual and daring, half French half Taiwanese Sylvie Barbier posed topless in a French Flag, in the Well gallery at London College of Communication, in her first live performance. "I created this piece thinking that people would look from above. I wanted to do something very eye catching so more people would want to be involved, be interactive and participate" said Sylvie. Surrounded by glasses of red and blue water she responded to passers-by, by painting herself with the colours they had chosen. The end result was the British flag... After the flag was formed, Sylvie peeled back the paint by what coloured drinks people were choosing. The peeling away symbolised the revealing of the humain skin underneath everything, showing that behind the appearance we are all the same..."we are all human and this sense of peeling off the paint revealed humanity", says Sylvie. The performance allowed people to interact and contributed to the art piece. "

Emma Hearle, Naked in the Name of Art Less Common more sense, The great british issue 2010