Group exhibition catalogs
MELTING POT OU COMMENT CHANGER LE PLOMB EN OR
La terre et le feu, autrement dit la matière et la passion, deux éléments qui caractérisent l’exposition Melting Pot ou comment changer du plomb en or. Melting Pot est le creuset des cultures, incarnent une alchimie d’artistes visuel·le·s de divers horizons, domaines, formations et expressions, créant avec le médium terre.
Fire and earth, or passion and matter, two elements that characterise the exhibition Melting Pot or how to turn lead into gold. The Melting Pot and cultural crucible play host to an alchemy of visual artists from different back-grounds, métiers, training and expressions, all of them artists who convey their message through the medium of clay.
Textes par / Texts by Patricia Glave, Rolando Bassetti, Vincent Fontana & Corinne Sandoz
Flynn Maria Bergmann, Adrien Chevalley, Fabien Clerc, Louis Clerc, Laure Gonthier, Christian Gonzenbach, Shannon Guerrico, Lucie Kholer, Alexandre Loye, Keiko Machita, Agathe Naito, Noemi Niederhauser, Charlotte Nordin, Sandrine Pelletier, Guillaume Pilet, Michèle Rochat & Emanuelle Klaefiger, François Ruegg, Daniel Ruggiero, Maude Schneider
L-Espace du fond inaugurated its second season with the exhibition Construire le détour, which ran from April 23 to May 2, 2021. L-Espace du fond was the starting point for a series of exhibitions: an art space and five private apartments hosted works by eleven artists and one collective.
The boundaries between living and working spaces have been redefined by the pandemic. This exhibition format provides an opportunity to question the new configuration of these territories.
Walking, the path traversed between these places, not only symbolises a space for reflection, but also proves to be a powerful vector of production and demand, a state that overcomes confinement and provides a precious feeling: that of being free.
In each location, the works dealt not only with themes related to the representation of the territory, but also with current issues in the art world, such as the remuneration of cultural operators. The public was able to visit the exhibition in two ways: freely or in groups on guided tours with the curators.
Agathe Naito & Rosalie Vasey
(translated from french)
Valérie Alonso, Emmanuelle Antille, Estelle Bourdet, Sophie Bouvier Ausländer, Marie-Pierre Cravedi, Sylvie Godel, Emanuelle Klaefiger, Suzanne Perrin, Delphine Reist, Michèle Rochat, Hanna Rochereau, Les Topophoniques représentés par Patricia Bosshard, Benoît Moreau, Dragos Tara et Clotilde Wuthrich
SENSITIVE SITUATIONS-FOR AN AESTHETICS OF ATMOSPHERE
Re-search
After the cycle of work was begun two years ago, during a period in which we felt pulled in a direction that hadn’t been traced beforehand, we found ourselves stranded on the edges of astonishment. The astonishment was endowed with a particular value within the field of artistic research and somewhat contravened what one expects of research. Thus “Sensitive Situations” found its position in knowing what it didn’t want rather than what it did. It would be a contradiction to predefine the aims of a research project when the actual process of this research is a heuristic one consisting of discovery of its own unexpected shapes. From then on, the true difficulty is in searching for what we aren’t wanting for: it’s about the ability to transform our way of looking, casting off our expectations. Indeed, if they reassure us and justify the interest that could arise for this research, they nonetheless resist the side roads encountered along the main one.
Robert Ireland
CONSTRUIRE LE DETOUR
Edited by Visarte Vaud, Patricia Glave (ed.), Lausanne, 2022
Designed by Balmer Hählen
Photographs Emile Barret
Hardcover, 130 pages, color ills. French/English
ISBN 978-2-8399-3678-1
1000 copies printed
Photos: © Delphine Burtin
Edited by L-Espace du fond, Agathe Naito, Rosalie Vasey (ed.), Lausanne, 2022
Designed & illustrated by Johanne Roten
Softcover, 32 pages, 16 black & white ills., French
Photos: © Delphine Burtin
Edited by EDHEA HES-SO, Robert Ireland (ed.)
Edition fink, Zürich, 2020
Designed by Claudia Jenni Palma, Georg Rutishauser
Photographs Andrea Herrera, Nicolas Vermot-Petit-Outhenin
Softcover, 256 pages, color ills. French/English
ISBN 978-3-03746-245-4
Photos: © Delphine Burtin