“Violet, you’re turning violet, Violet!” yells Violet Beauregarde’s mother in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as Violet chews a stick of Willy Wonka’s magic gum. In an iPhone selfie printed on tarp (Off-Colors, 2020), on view in Giulia Essyad’s exhibition “Chocolate Factory,” the young Geneva-based artist …

Déjouant les mécanismes de représentation, les œuvres de Laurent Faulon opèrent des brèches, des écarts et des glissements entre des systèmes symboliques. Des premiers gâteaux, matelas et saucisses vus à Grenoble au milieu des années quatre-vingt-dix au Brise-Glace – squat proche du CNAC-Magasin où Paul Mc Carthy vint l …

The notion of alienation has faded into the background for quite a long time now. Once a powerful tool of social and cultural critique, it is rarely mentioned today, let alone analytically deployed to understand the world in which we live. And yet, alienation is what first comes to mind when we encounter the works of Gabriela Löffel. Ab …

Making art films has become more and more difficult and, therefore, daring and adventurous. Why more difficult? Because – over the last decades and increasingly so – we have been truly absorbing films and moving images almost daily. We have been learning to see the world through the lenses of cameras and are much more aware both of th …

Alan Bogana often finds himself between languages, cultural contexts, and disciplines, zones of translation that inspire his inter- and transdisciplinary artistic practice. His work engages with the natural sciences: specifically with physics – more precisely the study of light – and mineralogy. Bogana approaches scientific assumption …

Depuis de nombreuses années, Josée Pitteloud peint des tableaux abstraits où l’œuvre s’élabore couche par couche pour arriver à une modulation permanente de la surface picturale où la possible émergence d’une forme ne cesse de se dissoudre. Les premières œuvres de l’artiste, née en 1952, datent de la fin des années 197 …