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Evaluations 3AV – 2023
Projects
This section contains a selection of emblematic or recent projects related to the disciplines taught in the Bachelor's degree.
Semester Projects
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Evaluations 1AV – 2023
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Evaluations 3AV – 2022
by Roxane Christinet, Salomé Engel, Maria Esteves, Assadour Matthey, Léonard Vazquez Vila, Flavio Visalli
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Evaluations 2AV – 2022
by Fanny Dunning, Clément Grimm, Laura Hagmann, Mathilde Hansen, Noemi Leneman, Nolan Lucidi, Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio, Florentina Walser, Ysé Willemin
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Evaluations 1AV – 2022
by Charlie Jannes, Anna Kawahara, Romane Roy
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Evaluations 2AV – 2021
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Evaluations 1AV – 2021
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Evaluations 3AV – 2021
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Evaluations 2AV – 2021 #2
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Evaluations 1AV – 2021 #2
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Evaluations 2AV – 2020
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Evaluations 1AV – 2020
Workshops
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Workshop Una Szeemann
Une semaine focalisée sur la spéculations et les nouvelles histoires déclenchées principalement par la matière avec l'artiste Una Szeemann. Les étudiant.exs ont orienté leurs réflexions sur le pouvoir des objets, du point de vue de l'art, du fétichisme, de l'object oriented ontology, de la psychanalyse et de la magie…
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Hum Hum, l'ecal à Treize, Paris
HUM HUM MAGAZINE est une publication-exposition nomade conçue par le Bachelor Arts Visuels de l’ECAL dont le premier numéro investit la galerie parisienne Treize. Organisée autour d'une série d'invitations, chaque édition est pensée par les étudiant·e·s du Bachelor Arts Visuels comme une exposition facilement diffusable et activable à l’infini. À l’occasion du lancement de son premier numéro, HUM HUM MAGAZINE investit Treize à Paris pour y déployer son sommaire à l’échelle du lieu. Un projet initié par Philippe Decrauzat, Gallien Déjean et Stéphane Kropf.
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DON'T BE HAPPY, WORRY - ecal students x Kenneth Goldsmith
Inspiré·e·s par un atelier intense et stimulant avec l'artiste américain Kenneth Goldsmith, les étudiant·e·s du Bachelor Arts Visuels ont valorisé des signes subtils du quotidien, transformant des pensées errantes en un tapis : non pas comme un dessin, mais comme un détour ; non pas comme une déclaration, mais comme une collection d'absurdités oubliées. Poète distingué par le MoMA, Kenneth Goldsmith s’inspire de son manifeste Uncreative Writing pour créer notamment livres, textes critiques, émissions et installations à partir de collages de matériaux trouvés.
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FÉLIX VALLOTTON, UN HOMMAGE, musée Jenisch, Vevey
by Zuzana Baková, Caroline Bischoff, Emma Blanc-Germser, Mykolya Churmantaiev, Anna Cocimarov, Oana Cuozzo, Mayalène de Roquemaurel, Eulalie Félix, Louis Fontaine, Duna György, Marsaili Venus Haas, Olivia Handschin, Amina Loumachi, Clara Luna, Céleste Meylan, Diego Mühlematter, Paul Reachi, Baptiste Schaerer, Charlie Schär, Jamie Soria, Nayla Younes
Pour célébrer les cents ans de la mort de Félix Vallotton, le Musée Jenisch Vevey invite le Bachelor Arts Visuels de l'ECAL à rendre hommage à cet artiste suisse emblématique dans une exposition collective. S'inspirant de ses gravures qui reflètent l'ambiance parisienne de la fin du XIXe siècle, des colonnes Morris sont recréées dans le musée comme supports modulaires. Elles accueillent affiches, tracts et posters, échos de la culture contemporaine et des questionnements des étudiant·e·s d’aujourd’hui.
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Workshop with Cheryl Donegan
Week dedicated to experimentation with printing techniques
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Workshop Samir Laghouati-Rashwan
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WORKSHOP Marie-Caroline Hominal / Pierrine Poget
The BAAV is inviting two leading figures to its semestrial workshops: Pierrine Poget, author and poet, and Marie-Caroline Hominal, dancer and performer, both from Geneva. The former, described by one student as an "osteopath of the brain", invites a group of students to make a family with the voices in their heads, while the latter invites bodies into the space of the party for a performance in the ECAL film studio.
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Workshop Emmanuelle Lainé
by Charlie Jannes, Romain Rochat, Céleste Meylan, Baptiste Schaerer, Romane Roy, Mariana Isler, Noemi Leneman, Anna Kawahara, Tom Grbic, Julie Wuhrmann
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Workshop Jan Vorisek
by Caroline Bischoff, Louis Fontaine, Giada Gollin, Olivia Handschin, Amina Loumachi, Clara Luna, Axel Mattart, Achille Meier, Charlie Schär, Jamie Soria, Nayla Younes, Mayalène de Roquemaurel
Self explanatory
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ECAL×Cheryl Donegan
Nostalagia Is a Different Kind of Pain(t) ECAL x Cheryl Donegan On the occasion of artgenève from 3 to 6 March at Palexpo, ECAL presents projects by Bachelor Fine Arts students produced during a workshop with American artist Cheryl Donegan Initiated in the context of a collaboration with the Art & Vie Foundation, whose mission revolves around textiles, this workshop aimed at crossing everyday objects, subverting craft processes and reproductive gestures. Produced by students from the first to the third year, the selection of works presented reflects the transdisciplinary approach of the programme, where tapestry meets painting in dialogue with more performative pieces or digitally printed and cut aluminium sculptures. Students Patricia Araujo Roxanne Christinet Alexis Colin Oriane Emery Salomé Engel Maria Esteves Albertine Grbic Clément Grimm Laura Hagmann Mathilde Hansen Mariana Isler Charlie Jannes Anna Kawahara Nolan Lucidi Ella Minton Romane Roy Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio Flavio Visalli Florentina Walser Opening hours Thursday 3 March: 12 - 7pm Friday 4 March: 12 - 8pm Saturday 5 March: 12 - 8pm Sunday 6 March: 12 - 7pm Palexpo Rte François-Peyrot 30 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex https://palexpo.ch/
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Workshop Cheryl Donegan
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Workshop Attila Faravelli
Diploma Projects
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Malou Martinelli – À peine déplacé
by Malou Martinelli
À peine déplacé is an installation composed of a wooden sculpture and a video. It unfolds around a carefully chosen wall, which serves as a spatial and narrative anchor. In an approach that is both intimate and speculative, the installation explores the notion of home — and, more broadly, the built environment — as a place of projection, memory, transformation and unease. The narratives that run through it appear fragmented, sometimes discontinuous, much like the memories that constitute them. The body is constrained within it, put under strain, caught in spaces that oscillate between familiarity and strangeness. From this friction emerge ambiguous, dream-like experiences, where the familiar gradually slips away, creating a sense of diffuse imbalance.
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Kathleen Pickavance – The Mannequin Behind the Curtain
by Kathleen Pickavance
The film The Mannequin Behind the Curtain is presented in a blue satin box with two peepholes. It stages a dimly lit setting in which a mannequin and a person are scrutinised by a moving flashlight. The footage features images of mannequins observed at night through a store window. The piece draws inspiration from a short story by Sadegh Hedayat, in which a man becomes obsessed with a mannequin he cannot stop gazing at.
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Virginie Emonet – That's all folks!
by Virginie Emonet
That's all folks! explores various concepts, such as self-image as a woman, sexist stereotypes, and the influence and strategies of advertising and cinematic imagery. These themes are examined through the figure of Marilyn Monroe, a complex media figure. Her personality is multifaceted, and she embodies both the essence of the society of the spectacle and of Hollywood. The endings of her films are supposed to be happy; however, they ultimately amount to Monroe finding refuge with misogynistic and abusive male characters. By creating new narratives, That's all folks! restores — or rather, redraws — joyful and empowering final scenes for her, moving away from the reductive clichés of her era.
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Niki Loroch – Marching band
by Niki Loroch
"Heterosexuals can't understand camp because everything they do is camp." – Charles Ludlam, "Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly", 1992 Marching band is a corpus of performative actions deployed and punctually activated within an exhibition space. Conceived as a fanfare and through tropological incarnations, the various characters that compose it mobilize in order to — amongst other things — attempt to ruffle the few tacit contracts that regulate the fields of display. In short: get your handkerchiefs ready.
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Ielyzaveta Okhrimchuk – Marevo
by Ielyzaveta Okhrimchuk
Marevo is a phenomenon in which the air appears to shimmer or dissolve, making perception unstable. In Ukrainian, the word also designates a state of in-between. This is precisely what this project explores: a series of photographs made during the artist's return to Kyiv, their hometown, in March 2026, which documents how people live in a state of permanent suspension — between destruction and daily life, between before and after, between knowing and not knowing. The installation presents two scales of images: smaller photographs showing traces of war, larger ones illustrating how life continues alongside it. Not as opposites, but as two simultaneous realities.
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Romane Persoz – Home sweet home !!
by Romane Persoz
The woman that became « Wife » finds herself hampered by her household and kitchen gloves. The woman that became « Mom » finds herself in a space colonized and invaded by insects with insidious behaviors. The woman finds herself in a refuge until the walls give up under her flow. Home sweet home !!
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Celia Cusanno – Waiting for the White Rabbit
by Celia Cusanno
Time is taken to meticulously cover forms and materials. Gluing, peeling, folding, pasting, cutting, stamping, heating, and cooling until they border on uselessness. Freed from their original purpose, they come to exist without seeking to satisfy. Through an act of care, a way of tending to forms and materials, the work strives to hold them on a threshold that stretches out. They then escape the general flow and slow down until they come to a standstill. They remain there, far from the clamor of expectations. Between momentum and restraint, openness and withdrawal, they breathe. Later, perhaps some of them will leave. Or perhaps not.
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Livia de Goumoëns – A Horse collection from or for Vanessa Rossetto / A Sound recollection
by Livia de Goumoëns
A Horse collection from or for Vanessa Rossetto Six images for and by V. Rossetto: an artist who makes music – or rather, who assembles bits and pieces to create music. This collection is a tribute and a demonstration of my love for her, life, images, sound. A Sound recollection : a selection of 25 sound collages made with my friend M.B., broadcast across five train station platforms. We piece together things we love and things we make. The sound plays every 13 minutes for about a minute. They provide a rhythm and they provide silence. Breaking the rhythm to reveal. And this probably only works when you establish a rhythm. Arrhythmia does not arise from a void but from its presence within a score that excludes it.
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Avril Hélard – I Tell A Fly
by Avril Hélard
I Tell A Fly is an installation in which the idea of the enigma structures the relationships between the works, evoking a latent space where meaning is constantly produced but never fully resolved. Different forms of modular structures connected to scenography, writing, memory, and repetition function as strategies through which a narrative emerges, unfolding through the visitor's movement within the exhibition space.
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Eloïse Llanca Bolivar – La Llorona / Las chismosas / Cha Cha Gitano
by Eloïse Llanca Bolivar
"I heard the last coin drop into the coin slot of the pay phone, a sound like leaves, like the wind lifting dry leaves, a sound like cables twisting and untwisting, then unraveling into nothingness. Poetic misery. Do you remember that I wanted to tell you something and that in the end I didn't tell you? Her voice sounded perfectly normal. When? I heard myself say stupidly. A long time ago, […]" – Roberto Bolaño, "The Savage Detectives", 1998
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Félicie Morel – Rêve, trésor rêve.
by Félicie Morel
Is it perhaps a question mark, or subtle details slipping into these stones? Rêve, trésor rêve. examines the forms that shape the collective imagination from early childhood onwards. Through the attractive power of aesthetics — bright or softened colours, rounded edges, scaled-down proportions, and gentle tones played on broken crockery. Toys often become symbols of contemporary issues. They replay the dynamics that have led past generations into current crises. They offer an innocent form to violence, rendering it acceptable, even normalised, as the heroine of childhood narratives.
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Kathleen Pickavance – La Senteuse
by Kathleen Pickavance
In the film La Senteuse, the artist plays a character who struggles to walk through a field in high heels. In order to reach her desired destination, she carries a long ladder with her, drawing the viewer closer to her body through the lens of an anonymous eye.