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Jamie Soria – eddy
by Jamie Soria
once upon a time a little vampire lost himself in the forest...
Bachelor
BA Visual Arts
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Céleste Meylan – Duels
by Céleste Meylan
If you come looking for me, you will find me.
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Oana Cuozzo – Mise en pièce
by Oana Cuozzo
The elac gallery becomes a multi-dimensional space. Dissected, manipulated, walls become boards and boards become walls, which in turn become shadows. The piece is an “in-between” state, neither a photograph, nor a sculpture, nor a frame. Elac becomes both an operating theatre and the subject undergoing surgery.
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Charlie Schaer – gastro-sensuelles comorbidités (...)
by Charlie Schaer
The installation comes with a poem printed on paper, which is also the title of the piece. materials : clay, aluminium, condoms, dental dams, string, cherries, industrial wax & clay wet with testosterone gel, aluminium, candle wick, bees wax
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Diego Mühlematter – Anybody Out There ?
by Diego Mühlematter
Interested in photographic devices and images, the artist tries to make them coexist by using camera backs as windows. He explore the gray area inside the camera and tries to map this wandering.
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Olivia Handschin – EUREKA
by Olivia Handschin
A few years ago, a winnie the Pooh Sock tumbled underneath her bed. The mattress was too small for the frame, causing things to fall regularly between the wooden panels. Winnie hoped the little girl would look under the bed, but kids are often terrified of looking there, invoquing an innate fear of the darkness and all of its monsters. In fact, what lay beneath was a peculiar place, one that collects all those forgotten bits and pieces that slip between the panels— a kind of portal to a forgotten realm, buried beneath dust and old storage boxes. It was the worst fate any household item could endure— a kind of limbo— and depending on the household, it may take a long time before you are found again, if you are ever found at all.
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Caroline Bischoff – Daisy Selfie
by Caroline Bischoff
I want to go out but I also want to stay in.
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Mayalène de Roquemaurel – Honte excitante
by Mayalène de Roquemaurel
Exciting shame. The body split, as if divided into several pieces. The pasty thing in the mouth. It runs through my nails, my nose, my epithelial tissue. Tiny cells swarming in the belly, some empty, others full. They try to swell and escape, flowing like a stream through the limbs, awakening the stirred viscera. An endless thread that knots and unknots itself.
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Mykolya Churmantaiev – Post-Post-Kontrapost
by Mykolya Churmantaiev
Post-Post-Kontrapost explores a collapsed body — part painting, part sculpture — dissolving into fragments. There’s no action left, only trace. A figure has broken out of a holding space; what remains is absence. Birds surround it — not hostile, just present. Their quiet gaze becomes psychopolitical: always observing, never intervening. The painting hangs low, not for the viewer, but the figure — which is already leaving. The black jacket renders the body heavy, depersonalized. A doorway, echoing Clyfford Still, offers artificial calm. The system rejects exhaustion and apathy, but this work lingers there — in the after. The birds don’t leave. They follow.
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Paul Reachi – Take It All In!
by Paul Reachi
"Take It All In!" is a 2-channel video installation positioned between documentary and fantasy. It investigates how entertainment influences labor, psychology, and shared imagination. Blending real life stories, fictional scenarios and animal presence, it reflects on generational and cultural attitudes toward passion, work, and existential meaning. Filmed along the Mediterranean and the Lemanic coasts — where leisure and labor often intersect — the piece examines layered realities. The 2-channel format captures this simultaneity also offering material at once hi and lo-fi, mirroring a fragmented overlapping experiences of image, representation, purpose and identity.
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Emma Blanc-Germser – Noce de pigeon
by Emma Blanc-Germser
We're off to tell our own stories, piecing together the crap that surrounds us to make beautiful structures while gradating the shades of brown, beige, black, ochre, khaki, that it offers us. Because when the tears stop coming out, everything ends up coming out through the buttocks. And there's nothing left to do but to go in the quest of love.
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Anna Cocimarov – De deux choses l'urne (qui rit), l'autre c'est le sommeil...
by Anna Cocimarov
Laughter on TV was recorded in the 1950s. Today, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.” This line from the novel Berceuse by Chuck Palahniuk feels like an urban legend — half true. It echoes Bruce Nauman’s Partial Truth, a cold, minimalist stele shaped like a dead TV screen. Television, too, builds partial truths: cutting, filtering, reframing reality. We watch the news like a sitcom, between forced laughter and banalized tragedy. This installation reflects this fractured perception: two urns — one laughs, the other sleeps. Vessels of memory, they embody both absurdity and numbness. Between laughter and sleep, death and spectacle, the boundary fades — like truth itself.
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Zuzana Baková – and she said, it loops when you’re not looking
by Zuzana Baková
Water distribution and the infrastructure responses devised for the transmission of its stream, such as irrigation canals, artificial rivers, holding reservoirs, hydroelectric dams, etc., are reframed through the formal attitude of circular sculpture, containing water. A discourse on the control over, allocation of, and access to the resource. Circular shapes and motions allude to temporal constructs such as loops, time capsules, and atemporality. Time and space are treated as variables in this equation.
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Nayla Younes – Please Keep Disobeying
by Nayla Younes
Take a break during a lull in the action.
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Marsaili Venus Haas – untitled (composition no. 12)
by Marsaili Venus Haas
Sheep and cows and hares and ventilators and angels and humans and grandmas and trees and foxes.
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Louis Fontaine – Figures de Contraite
by Louis Fontaine
This two-sculpture project develops hybrid forms drawn from the silhouettes of basket gowns, medieval armor, liturgical garments, and feudal Japanese firefighters’ clothing. The work explores the notion of apparatus and its evolving relationship to the body, addressing themes of identity, ritual, and constraint. A dynamic tension emerges between protection and rigidity. Influenced by the tactile richness of Olga de Amaral and the sculptural textile innovations of Jeanne Vicérial, the sculptures inhabit a liminary space where body, structure, and narrative converge.
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Eulalie Félix – Il est parfois nécessaire de faire une scène.
by Eulalie Félix
My first is hollow and clangs softly when struck by a wandering step. My second is barely a word — just a pause, a breath between thoughts. My third hides in the dark, curled in warmth, five to a foot. My whole lies quiet beneath the earth, waiting to feed with no pride, only patience.
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Duna György – One hour is much more than you think
by Duna György
everybody dries their shit under the sun
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Clara Luna – Réverbères
by Clara Luna
What happens between lightning and thunder? Distance (d) = Seconds’’ : 3 The Lamposts are located somewhere (...) The evasive measure of time; the experience of atmosphere and doubt. 1,6 km
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Baptiste Schaerer – La Vanrac
by Baptiste Schaerer
A bull's voice, a linnet's head, an elephant's memory, BANG! a viper's tongue, an ostrich's stomach, a lion's heart, a monkey's grin, as sharp as a blackbird, POUET! as nasty as a caterpillar, BOOM! as stubborn as a donkey, as cunning as an old monkey, as talkative as a magpie, as cowardly as a rabbit YOUPIII
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Amina Loumachi – Pleaser Flamingo-808G 8 inches schlong
by Amina Loumachi
This performance play with themes of spaces. Through sexualities, the artist questions power dynamics, creating a link amongst the bioluminescence concept as a visibility strategy and queer activism. With heels dancing and a neon atmosphere, the project explores the way of inhabiting the space which could either be intimate or the public. The artist amplifies the echo of their heels, which draws the silence while lighting up the space with each clack. A dialogue is created with the public, still but here. A biocenosis takes place where a space-sound landscape exists creating a tangible discomfort. Bodies become a vector of memories, breathing as the performance goes. A shared heritage gets distributed but also reverses the positions of everyone.
BA Cinema
FILM STUDIES
Antonin Dutoit – À perte de vue
by Antonin Dutoit
An old man dies slowly, cared for by a home aide. A young man watches them, in silence.
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Aurélie Chételat – Lumpaz
by Aurélie Chételat
One, two, three… statue. Will the bear play with me? Where is he? What is he?
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Camille Surdez – L'Avant-Poste 21
by Camille Surdez
Between doubts and awkwardness, three roommates go through a night marked by the abortion of one of them.
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David Gonseth – Noirs matins
by David Gonseth
The youngest in a family gradually senses a quiet unease lurking in their ordinary daily life.
FILM STUDIES
Lanna Melissa Nebie – Rémanence
by Lanna Melissa Nebie
A young woman seeks to save her father's soul, guided by a blind man to a forbidden place.
FILM STUDIES
Louis Richalet – De l'eau qui bout au fond de la terre
by Louis Richalet
Deep underground, Alexandre follows voices and sounds, which arise from and lead him to a lost woman.
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Serhii Tykhoniuk – Nostos
by Serhii Tykhoniuk
In a hotel room, a Ukrainian filmmaker in exile has his isolation disrupted by the unexpected return of his former partner, who is about to leave for Ukraine to be with her ailing father.
FILM STUDIES
Victor Cateau – Ceux qui restent
by Victor Cateau
In an Alpine village shaken by the arrival of a controversial ski resort project, a man disappears into the night. Overwhelmed by the events, Marie, the mayor, tries to understand the forces at play.
BA Graphic Design
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Alfredo Venti – Points de rencontre/Treffpunkte
by Alfredo Venti
Points de rencontre/Treffpunkte is an inclusive graphic system designed to make sociocultural resources more visible and accessible to people facing linguistic isolation, or to anyone seeking to join a social network. Inspired by educational tools used with non-native speakers, it combines pictograms, color coding, visual keywords, and modular signage. Installed at the entrances of community centers through interchangeable panels, and complemented by poster campaigns (print and web), it brings these structures into public view for those looking for a service, a network, or simply a welcoming place. https://pointsderencontre-treffpunkte.ch/
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Amélie Bertholet – a room of our own
by Amélie Bertholet
a room of our own is an editorial project born from the relationship between my flatmate, Flavia, and myself. This book explores how a relationship lives and evolves within a shared space: our apartment. Often seen as a transitional phase, cohabitation here becomes a long-term space of emancipation and sisterhood. Nurtured by feminist references—beginning with its title, borrowed from "A Room of One’s Own" by Virginia Woolf—the project questions the place of women within spaces of creation and intimacy. Through symmetry and collection, the book translates the experience of a lived space into an editorial object. The layout's grid, drawn from the apartment’s floor plan, creates shifts in scale and layout to reflect the transformation of 3D space into the 2D printed page.
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Candice Aepli – Brindille et Azilise
by Candice Aepli
Brindille et Azilise invite you to imagine children's space differently, by offering a lively, playful universe in their bedrooms. Here, the story is not read between the pages, but lies on the floor and climbs up the windows. It slips under an arm. It tucks in dreams. It's a whole world at children's level, where ecosystems come to life through furniture, transforming everyday life into a playground for exploration. Le jardin, collection no. 1 The gardener has slipped seeds into the soil, the bright sun warms the petals, the mouse nibbles on the sly, and in this corner full of life, everyone is busy and smiling.
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Constance Mauler – Club Kid
by Constance Mauler
My project explores the Club Kid scene. Born in the 1980s in New York, this movement emerged as a radical response to artistic and social elitism. Led by queer and marginalized individuals, it transformed nightlife into a space of freedom, resistance, and self-invention. This publication aim to create a dialogue between the original generation of Club Kids and the contemporary scene, to show how this movement continues to challenge norms, invent new codes, and assert liberated identities. An immersion into a flamboyant and deeply political subculture.
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Coraline Beyeler – 5R
by Coraline Beyeler
5R is a documentary book explores the contrast between urban and rural agriculture, focusing on developments driven by new generations. It addresses issues related to pollution as well as social, health, and economic challenges.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Cyprien Valenza – Patterna
by Cyprien Valenza
Patterna is an experimental variable typeface designed around two axes: Weight and Weaving. Inspired by Cassandre's Bifur from the 1930s and the arrangement of threads on Jacquard looms, Patterna is based on a rigorous grid that structures shapes and spacing. Its modular layering system allows for graphic experimentation with variations, making each composition dynamic. Numerous alternates reinforce its formal richness. Patterna challenges fashion conventions by offering a modular, dense typeface designed as both a graphic tool and a writing system.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Delphine Brantschen – What Remains to Be Stitched
by Delphine Brantschen
What Remains to Be Stitched is an interactive website shaped as a memory palace. Through her mother's oral accounts, the graphic designer weaves together Brazil's past into 3D icons and narrative fragments. No objects or images have been preserved from this life — only words. These words are my only inheritance. But what remains when even she no longer remembers them? Blending graphic design, modeling, point clouds and spatial storytelling, the project explores a poetic form of transmission, stitching memories to preserve a fragile link between memory, culture and identity.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Diego Steiner – Hybrid Modules
by Diego Steiner
Hybrid Modules explores the link between traditional craftsmanship and contemporary technologies through the creation of a 3D-printed modular typographic tool for use with a manual letterpress. Designed on a grid, the modular alphabet becomes a set of physical dies, which can be inserted by hand into the press. The slow, repetitive process becomes an integral part of the visual language, making visible the time and care of the gesture. A series of A2 posters promotes a series of fictitious conferences entitled “ART, CRAFT & TECHNOLOGY - Guests in Switzerland”.
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Dorian Pangallo – Sublime Démocratie
by Dorian Pangallo
In an era where crises follow one another and justify a state of permanent exception, Sublime Democracy is a critical multimedia campaign portraying democracies stripped of their foundations, yet upheld by persistent symbols sustaining the illusion. Designed as a contemporary fable, the work draws on precise presidential speeches and polished visuals, integrating AI as the engine of a critical process where falsehood becomes language. By playing with the codes of power, it questions our habituation to fear, authority, and dominant narratives.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Eliot Dubi – JUST IN CASE
by Eliot Dubi
At the individual level, we can neither predict nor prevent the next disaster; we can only arm ourselves with the right reflexes to face it. JUST IN CASE is a website that gathers, through four scenarios — large wildfires, dam failures, industrial accidents and earthquakes — the key actions to remember when everything turns upside down. A clear tree-like navigation, concise texts and flat-style illustrations keep learning accessible without resorting to sensationalism. A triptych of posters promotes the site to the wider public. Designed for a generation flooded with anxiety-fuelled alerts, the project turns worry into simple, immediate actions — just in case.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Emilie Müller – Librarynth
by Emilie Müller
It is good to believe that the library is resilient. Not as a relic of the past, but as a presence that reinvents itself, oscillating between the tangible and the intangible. It's not a question of denying the digital, nor of clinging to our yellowed pages. But to understand that if we accept the library as a moving space, an organism that mutates with the times, then its future may not be so bleak. My diploma is a non-linear immersive library, conceived as a virtual house. Each piece evokes one of six themes from the Jan Michalski Foundation's Varia collection. In the form of a web interface, the project celebrates the serendipity inherent in physical libraries, while questioning how digital technology can translate the book experience.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Flora Hayoz – FACE À FACE
by Flora Hayoz
FACE À FACE is an exploration of loneliness through two mediums: dance and graphic design. This project brings together two practices to give shape to a hybrid creation. On one hand, a choreographic piece co-choreographed with Gaia Menchini, centred on states of loneliness and then captured on video. The second medium is a publication that extends the piece. By questioning the book as an object, it is designed to be read by two people and becomes a tool for dialogue and listening. The publication thus diverts from its usual uses, creating a sensory experience. The two media interact with each other, inviting us to experience solitude both in movement and in the sharing of reading. Thus, FACE À FACE offers an experience where solitude becomes the starting point for an encounter.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Hugo Scholl – Modulat – 2025
by Hugo Scholl
MODULAT is a variable typeface designed around the concept of a musical visualizer. Starting from a neutral design, it branches out into multiple character sets, each allowing adaptation to different graphic and sonic worlds. Its variation axes enable it to adjust to a wide range of display formats, making it suitable for use across various digital platforms. Conceived as a modular tool, it questions how a typeface can accompany music while maintaining visual coherence. The project combines formal experimentation with a search for graphic adaptability.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Léa Corin – Neither Fully Free, Nor Fully Captive
by Léa Corin
Neither Fully Free, Nor Fully Captive explores the theme of day parole. Through a video installation and a book, this project archives and documents the activities of an association dedicated to reintegration. The projection, conceived as an emotional archive, combines experimental videos with sound testimonies from individuals on day parole supported by the association, revealing the complexity of this transition. The book, as a complement, adopts a documentary and sensitive approach, blending stories and visual creations. This project transcends graphic form to foster social dialogue and shed light on an essential yet often overlooked issue.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Lidia Molina González – Toilet Break Magazine
by Lidia Molina González
It all started with taking a break. A pause. A moment alone in a shared space: quiet, ordinary, a little strange. Toilets might not be the first place you’d look for big ideas, but that’s why we chose them. Toilet Break uses this overlooked space to explore how we live together, take space, and connect. This first issue is about in-betweens: between public and private, inside and outside. It gathers voices from Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, across generations and practices. A place where ideas circulate freely, where serious things can be said with a wink. A collective and personal space to test new editorial forms, listen more carefully, and believe in detours as a way forward. To take, quite literally, a moment to reflect and sit with things.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Marc Facchinetti – The Swiss Climate Report
by Marc Facchinetti
The Swiss Climate Report is an editorial design project that explores climate change through data. Based on recent meteorological records, put into perspective with historical averages sometimes dating back more than 150 years, the book is supported by plugins custom-developed for InDesign. These tools translate scientific data such as temperatures, UV radiation and Dobson units into typographic variations and ASCII forms. This experimental approach offers an alternative reading of climate information. The project offers a raw and precise computer graphics perspective.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Mathilde Driebold – Ce qu'il reste de nous
by Mathilde Driebold
This book exists for what remains of us—and perhaps, of you. Fragments of an intimate past inscribed in, and lost within, a social context that goes beyond us. This diploma project takes the form of an editorial narrative, blending personal stories and social archives. Through this work, I explore the traces left by addiction within a family setting, bringing individual and collective memory into dialogue. Ce qu'il reste de nous also demonstrates that graphic design can be used as a tool to question social realities, give shape to sensitive subjects, and break the silence.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Paul Paturel – Modulat – 2025 #2
by Paul Paturel
Grime Index is an interactive VJ-ing project that centralizes, visualizes, and enables navigation through iconic moments of grime — a chaotic genre born on London’s pirate airwaves. By turning audio data into visual identity and live signage, the project makes a performance-based, oral, and improvised culture more readable. Designed for both newcomers and longtime fans, it is built around three interchangeable modules — MC, instrumental, and lyrics — honoring the culture of sampling, MCing, and mixing. Diarization, transcription, dynamic typography, and real-time effects combine to reveal grime’s living and navigable memory.
BA Industrial Design
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Lélie Guiochet – Colette
by Lélie Guiochet
Colette speaks of an intimate object worn directly against the skin, and yet one we abandon without remorse: the bra. It is an object that becomes obsolete, that is not resold second-hand and that is only rarely recycled. It accompanies us only for a few years, before wearing out or becoming too small. So Colette imagines a system that adjusts over time: a bra made of separate parts, cups, underband, straps, fasteners, underwire, to assemble, replace independently, readjust and personalize. The different parts are 3D-knitted, seamless and industrially compostable. The underwire and the fasteners, for their part, are infinitely recyclable. It is no longer the bust that adapts to the object, but the object that evolves with it.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Alexandre Li – Diego
by Alexandre Li
Sport has become a key social driver in today’s society, with more and more city dwellers gathering downtown to practice together. Diego is an urban furniture concept designed to tap into this dynamic by bringing football back into the heart of the city. Designed for underused public squares and parks, this project invites people to come together and share public space through sport. With a simple tilt, Diego transforms from a bench into a football goal. Thanks to integrated wheels, it can be easily moved and rearranged to suit the users’ needs. A single module invites spontaneous play, while several combined form a real pitch with goals at each end and seatings for spectators on the side.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Eva Reymond – Amaretto
by Eva Reymond
Amaretto celebrates siesta, slow life and the art of outdoor living. This modular garden structure is designed to create peaceful, shared moments of rest. Composed of three parts, it offers a choice of a wooden platform and two deckchairs, which can be positioned either side-by-side or face-to-face. The seats offer two positions, including a semi-recumbent position ideal for napping. Thanks to a system of screwed connectors, the structure is solid, removable and adaptable. It allows you to freely compose islands of relaxation, in the garden or by the water.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Alice Graff – Tijolo
by Alice Graff
In many parts of the Global South, especially in Brazil, building a home sometimes means building it yourself with few tools, limited means, and whatever is at hand. Tijolo was born from this reality. A kit of raw earth bricks, air-dried and made from soil, water, and recycled paper. They interlock in a staggered pattern, without mortar or heavy tools. On their surface, two volumes: designed to clip in cables or pipes no drilling, no breaking. You can change your mind. You can also seal them up, leaving a mark, a rhythm.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Jeremy Loup – Nestwork
by Jeremy Loup
This collection of three artificial bird nests addresses specific needs for cohabitation between birds and human environments. Each model is designed to be functional, accessible, and easy to reproduce. The tit nest supports natural regulation of pine processionary caterpillars. The grebe nest offers a floating structure for ports, preventing the birds from settling on boats. For common swifts, the nest is designed to be mounted on balconies, significantly reducing the high costs of traditional installations. All three nests follow the same construction logic : a cork shell for thermal and acoustic insulation, combined with Paulownia panels, a durable and weather-resistant wood. Their simplicity allows for production and assembly within sheltered workshops.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Aurélien Clerc – Mirabilis
by Aurélien Clerc
Mirabilis is a research project focused on educational optical instruments designed for naturalist observation. Each tool in this collection is dedicated to a different field of exploration: what lies in the distance, what is very small, and what can be found beneath the surface. It represents a shift in how we look at nature, this time in a literal sense, through visual instruments aimed at supporting curious observers of fauna and flora. The collection includes a monocular, a hand lens, and an aquascope, each of which plays with the principles of optical physics while also illustrating its properties with an educational intent.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
François Ader – INTERVALL
by François Ader
Why settle for an ordinary fit-out when your pop-up store deserves something exceptional ? INTERVALL is a modular structure system made from extruded aluminium, designed for emerging fashion brands looking to stage their pop-up stores. Based on two aluminium profiles, it allows for a wide variety of assemblies to create clothing racks, fitting rooms, tables or counters, adapting to any space while respecting the brand’s identity. Easily dismantled, transportable and reusable, it operates on a temporary rental principle, reducing costs and constraints. More than just a functional solution, INTERVALL is a sleek and refined support designed to enhance the universe of emerging brands.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Charlotte Jobin – Paco
by Charlotte Jobin
Paco is an urban water fountain designed for both humans and dogs, who are often forgotten in traditional fountains found in cities and parks. To reduce waste, a foot pedal controls the flow : as long as pressure is applied, water is dispensed. Any unused water is collected in a bowl located below, allowing a companion animal to drink. When the user lifts their foot, the water stops, and the bowl empties slowly to prevent stagnant puddles and overflow. Made of cast iron, a durable, weather-resistant material, Paco blends into the public space while strengthening the bond between people and pets.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Abla Bolassi Owoussi – Mira
by Abla Bolassi Owoussi
Mira is an interior lamp that explores modularity through a pulley system that allows for adjusting light intensity. The lampshade, made of veneer, subtly transforms depending on the position of the mechanism, playing on both light and shape. This project reflects a need for flexibility in the domestic space and reflects a personal research on the evolving object, halfway between discreet technicality and poetic expression of the material.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Toscane Jourde – Enveloppe – 2025
by Toscane Jourde
Enveloppe is an extendable table whose transformation affects its size, shape, and materiality. When closed, it serves everyday needs: a rectangular laminate table for four. When opened, it becomes a diamond-shaped oak table for eight to ten guests. This project extends a reflection developed in the designer's thesis on the notion of the collective — both as a value embedded in daily life and as a condition for creation. Enveloppe also explores spatial economy and the way furniture can influence human (social) interactions.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Christophe Ascençao – EC Knit
by Christophe Ascençao
EC Knit is a knitted bed designed for overnight trains, offering a lighter, more ergonomic, and intimate alternative to traditional sleeping compartments. Developed in collaboration with the TextielLab, the TextielMuseum’s professional workshop, this project makes use of 3D-knitted textiles produced on a circular knitting machine. The technique allows for precise control over support zones, adapting to the body's contours with padded areas and more flexible sections. The knit extends into panels that reduce noise, filter light, and create a sense of privacy in shared cabins. By lowering weight and simplifying maintenance, EC Knit is a washable textile system that provides a more comfortable and sustainable way to travel by night.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Gaia Vitali – Vela
by Gaia Vitali
Vela is a wooden structure designed to be installed in the Ticino River, which is currently undergoing renaturation. Intended for the newly designated swimming areas, Vela invites people to step into the water and experience the river during its calmer moments. Its backrest-like shape is welcoming and offers an immersive pause in the heart of nature. But the Ticino can suddenly become dangerous: when the current strengthens, Vela opens up to reveal colorful signage that warns of the risk. It is an object that combines comfort and safety, designed to bring people closer to the river in a simple, intuitive, and responsible way.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Matteo De Carlo – SOFT-ROLL
by Matteo De Carlo
“SR-QUIET-55” is a suitcase designed for versatility, compact storage, and everyday adaptability. Its structure focuses on three key aspects: modular functionality, space efficiency, noise reduction and the transformation of the inner bag into a standalone accessory. A lightweight, perforated shell supports a suspended interior bag, reducing friction and wear. The suitcase can be disassembled, with components that nest for minimal storage. The inner bag detaches easily and functions as a backpack, suitable for both travel and daily use. Wheels are engineered with a honeycomb structure and sound-dampening materials to reduce noise during movement.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Isaure Nicolet – Doll Chair
by Isaure Nicolet
Doll Chair is a seat imagined as a body to be dressed. Each textile element is independent, buttoned onto the structure, forming a collection of interchangeable cushions. The fabric, draped rather than stretched, echoes the familiar gesture of covering a seat to hide its wear. This chair reverses traditional hierarchies: here, visible finishes become structure, and dressing becomes a ritual. Inspired by the intimate gestures of the boudoir, Doll Chair extends a reflection on the object in a state of transformation—between model and furniture.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Joab Schneiter – Brum
by Joab Schneiter
Brum is a sustainable toy car designed for children aged 5 to 7 — a durable alternative to typical RC cars, which are often hard to repair and prone to breaking. Its cork body absorbs shocks, while a removable drivebox houses all electronics for easy maintenance. A paper shell lets kids customize the look of their car. The steering system uses a central axle and a self-centering elastic band, avoiding small, fragile parts. Wheels pop off easily for cleaning. Brum encourages creativity, repairability, and a more responsible approach to play.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Jean-Elie Matile – JEM-3
by Jean-Elie Matile
Environmental, energy, and urban planning issues in Switzerland, as in the rest of Europe, raise questions about our modes of mobility. In this context, microcars are re-emerging as a relevant solution. JEM-3 is a single-seater electric microcar designed to meet daily transportation needs in both urban and rural areas. Covered in textile, its bodywork is as light and modular as a tent, adapting to the weather and the user’s preferences. Its minimalist platform enables the design of the body and interior by actors outside the traditional automotive industry. Depending on the materials and manufacturing processes used, JEM-3 can take on multiple forms and adapt to various contexts.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Mael Sandoz – Staccato
by Mael Sandoz
Staccato is an articulated desk lamp with magnetic connectors. The connectors that make up the joints of this lamp operate through a system of notched wheels held in place by magnets, offering a wide range of motion. These magnets also serve to transfer electrical current from one end of the articulated arms to the other. The arms are assembled simply by magnetic attraction, so no screws, springs, or welding are required. The base, on the other hand, is made from conductive plastic, which allows the lamp to be turned on and off with a simple touch. The result is a simple, sleek lamp that requires minimal assembly and offers solid, durable joints with no risk of breakage.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Julie Tena – Velum
by Julie Tena
Velum is a pendant lamp designed to modulate light above a table, offering dual functions : soft, diffuse illumination or direct, precise lighting. Its sliding textile, gently undulating, creates volumes and shades that influence the room’s atmosphere. Intended for spaces where boundaries between work, meals, and relaxation blur, Velum allows users to adapt light to their needs and moments, supporting the fluctuating rhythms of daily life.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Maëlle Roten – Loo
by Maëlle Roten
Loo is a collection of three summer shoes entirely made of knit, including the sole. The project explores the possibilities of ornamental knitting by repurposing decorative stitches to reveal their structural and functional qualities. The upper combines a dense and elastic garter stitch for support with an openwork knit that allows air to circulate, ideal for the summer season. Thanks to the bubble stitch, the jute sole gains volume, durability, and comfort. Each bubble acts like a cushion of material, and their repetition creates a textured profile. Inspired by moccasins and espadrilles, Loo blends an artisanal look with industrial production potential. Their crochet assembly allows easy disassembly, extending their lifespan and facilitating recycling.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Salla Vallotton – Celcius
by Salla Vallotton
Terracotta is a natural thermally efficient material that has been used for centuries in both heating and cooling applications. Its high thermal inertia allows it to absorb heat slowly and release it gradually, making it ideal for maintaining a stable temperature over time. While heating systems are typically unused during the summer, Celcius explores how they could serve a dual purpose, integrating a passive cooling function, to extend their utility year-round.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Noah Stanley – Ovis
by Noah Stanley
Ovis highlights wool, particularly its natural properties for use in sports. Drawing on the traditional Russian boot known as the valenki, it reimagines the role of wool in a hybrid shoe, designed for both hiking and daily wear. The shoe consists of a thermoformed EVA foam upper that houses a felted wool inner boot. Its modular design allows for easy removal of the inner boot for cleaning or replacement, ensuring hygiene and durability while offering comfort and performance.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Chiara Corno – Hanami
by Chiara Corno
Hanami is a collection of metal flower holders, designed to elegantly display and enhance fresh flowers in a harmonious way. Made from treated steel rods, these minimalist structures allow you to place an entire bouquet in a vase and simply hang it on the wall. This makes it easy to remove the whole arrangement to change the water, then replace it in one simple gesture. With Hanami, you reduce your flower consumption and extend their lifespan. After enjoying a fresh bouquet, you simply hang it upside down to dry naturally. Once the flowers are dried, just flip the flower holder to reveal a long-lasting arrangement. You can admire your floral composition for up to two years, like a beautiful painting on the wall.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Titouan Longatte – Volut
by Titouan Longatte
Conceived as a response to noise pollution in urban environments, Volut is a window shutter that incorporates acoustic insulation to shield living spaces from external disturbances. The insulation is provided by removable panels that block noise by absorbing sound waves. The panels pivot to allow light and air into the room while preserving their acoustic properties. The structure relies on standard aluminium profiles and sheet metal, enabling easy adaptation to different window dimensions and seamless integration into façade frames. The shutters are devoid of any superfluous elements; the hardware is concealed within the profiles, resulting in a minimal architectural element that evokes silence both visually and acoustically.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Oriana Gonzalez Fernandez – Enveloppe – 2025 #2
by Oriana Gonzalez Fernandez
Today, cafés have become popular workspaces — but this shift brings challenges. Customers often occupy tables for extended periods, and most venues lack accessible charging ports. While some cafés have introduced 60-minute limits on laptop use, these rules are difficult to enforce. Elio offers a solution : a compact device offered by the café that tracks time with a ring of LED lights and provides a USB-C port for charging laptops and mobile devices, functioning as a portable battery. Its smooth, rounded form is tactile and stackable on a shared charging base. Managed through an app, Elio allows cafés to customize usage settings, offering a balance between customer comfort and efficient space management.
BA Media & Interaction Design
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Thomas Gaudin – UnBubble
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Lara Défayes, Laura Nieder
Unbubble is an interactive installation in which a robot explores a user’s smartphone to analyze their Instagram usage. This intrusive act highlights a paradox: if it’s rare to hand one’s phone to a machine, we nonetheless do so every day by letting algorithms collect our data. Our online habits shape a tailor-made reality that filters, sorts, suggests, and sometimes limits our horizons. Unbubble questions how our digital traces construct a fragmented image of ourselves — one that is then used to guide our choices, desires, and attention. The installation invites us to become aware of these mechanisms and opens up a space to imagine other narratives, other ways of navigating, and other worlds to explore beyond the paths laid out by algorithms.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Ayten Gönel – Tied Realities
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Lara Défayes, Laura Nieder
Tied Realities is an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that questions the relationship between material and immaterial space. In VR, physical space is rarely considered a constraining parameter in the creation of the environment. the project seeks to reverse this logic by integrating a physical constraint at the heart of the virtual experience. Plunged into an oppressive environment, each participant is invited to interact with an device that binds their wrists and restricts their movements. This device acts as a material representation of the discomfort felt by the protagonist in VR, which becomes the central element of the narrative, structuring the environment and interactions. Tied Realities then allows to experience the friction between digital freedom and physical limits.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Baptiste Godart – L'anarchisme n'est pas une invention des Sex Pistols.
with Christophe Guignard, Pauline Saglio, Alain Bellet, Lara Défayes, Laura Nieder, Gaël Hugo
The first international anarchist organization appeared in 1871—not in London, but in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. Who would have thought? If you think anarchism is all about chaos, crust punks, or masked rioters, this web documentary will shatter those stereotypes. You’ll discover how the Jura watchmakers organized to unite their peers across borders and confront the domination of the bourgeois, capitalist class. The Jura Federation is a key chapter in the history of anarchism. The art direction combines the fanzine aesthetic of the late 20th century with a modern interface design. Visual work is a major part of the documentary, with most of the imagery being original creations.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Elena Biasi – Magnetic Fragments
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Laura Nieder, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Lara Défayes
Before the rise of digital technology and social networks, everyday moments were captured on analog media and watched with family in one uninterrupted flow. These long VHS tapes, composed of successive sequences, gradually disappeared, victims of their obsolescence. Magnetic Fragments offers a way to rediscover these forgotten memories through a three-dimensional web interface, where each bubble represents a memory to explore and comment on. Designed for a private circle, the collaborative platform allows free navigation, revisiting each memory fragments in a dynamic way and breaking with the monotonous structure of past viewings. Magnetic Fragments thus becomes a space for intergenerational transmission, where the past is shared in the present.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Emilie Maier – Moji
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes
A simple password can be cracked in a matter of seconds. Many people reuse the same password for years, or entrust all their passwords to specialized software, counting on not having to remember them themselves. Moji offers a playful and accessible alternative for strengthening our digital security, without the complexity. Designed for people who are less at ease with these issues, the application accompanies the user step by step, guided by Moji — a little character who simplifies the creation of passwords and makes their memorization more intuitive. The whole experience is designed to be fluid and non-anxious, transforming an often tedious task into a simple, guided and reassuring moment.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Livia Schmid – Trail Sync
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Laura Nieder, Gaël Hugo, Lara Défayes
In remote alpine regions, access to reliable information – such as trail conditions or weather alerts – becomes difficult in the absence of network coverage. Trail Sync addresses this challenge through a participatory and decentralized approach: local information boxes, integrated into hiking infrastructure, are passively updated by hikers using an offline mobile application. Each person passing near a box synchronizes contextual data, leaving a digital trace that benefits those who follow. Reinforcing existing signage without increasing technological dependency, the system is rooted in the mountain values of collective responsibility and solidarity.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Olivia Capol – How Do They Know ?
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Lara Défayes, Laura Nieder, Gaël Hugo
We all use ChatGPT. But why? Perhaps because it seems to have an answer to everything. How Do They Know ? is an interactive experience that invites us to follow the path of each question we ask an AI, from the moment it enters the system until a truth is delivered to us. Three guides are available to take us to the heart of language model mechanisms. Their points of view, sometimes opposing, intersect and contradict each other. What if the way algorithms respond to us influences what we believe? Behind each exchange lies our relationship to human knowledge, what we expect from machines, what they learn from us, and what we decide to believe.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Alexine Sierro – Spira Memoriae
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes
In a world where ecosystems are dying out and certain smells are evaporating, what is happening to the places and stories that gave them form? Spira Memoriae is an immersive olfactory experience in virtual reality that invites users to journey through a fragmented sensory world. Original fragrances, created in collaboration with perfumer Tennessee Macdougall, extend the reflection through the language of odours. Beacons of an abstract landscape, they reveal rare materials, sometimes extinct, but still present in our collective memory. Spira Memoriae explores the tensions between disappearance and persistence, industry and territory, reality and reconstruction. Smell becomes a vehicle for storytelling, transmission and shared fiction.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Valère Zen-Ruffinen – Memoria
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.” - Roy Batty, Blade Runner (1982). Many of the moments we share with our loved ones fade from memory when nothing brings them back to life. Little by little, they disappear. Memoria is a photo album application that explores the fragility of memory, and how we maintain — or allow to fade — our connections through it. Through a process of gradual disappearance, the people in our photos slowly fade if no new memories shared with them are added. To keep their faces visible, users are invited to regularly enrich their album with new shared moments.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Aryana Noorani – Check-out / Check-in
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes
In this point-and-click game, players take on the role of a maid on her first day in a luxury hotel. Each level consists of a messy room left behind by guests. The player must remember the list of tasks and complete them in the correct order to restore the room. The gameplay relies on simple, repetitive actions, where order and memory are key, with no room for error in such meticulous surroundings. Through repetition, the actions become mechanical, but the slightest mistake forces the player to start over. Guided by the overbearing voice of a manager, the experience combines curiosity, frustration and a quiet sense of absurdity in a simple game loop.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Quentin Kohler – EnhancedCrops
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Lara Défayes, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder
“At EnhancedCrops, we aim to create the apple of the future.Thanks to our exclusive technology, which promises to revolutionize the future of agriculture, we are about to develop an apple tree capable of surviving the hottest heatwave as well as the latest spring frost. No matter what parasite clings to it, our Tungsten apple tree will always resist. And that’s not even counting that it will produce the perfect apple, available year-round. Humanity is accelerating climate change? It doesn’t matter! We have the solution. It’s up to us to help it surpass itself. At EnhancedCrops, we’ve made it our mission. Join us, and let’s cultivate a sweeter, ever more fruitful world together.” A story of a failure foretold.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Mathias Liniger – Just a game?
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes
Just a game? is an interactive project that explores how war video games contribute to the trivialization of violence through their game design. Why are weapons perceived as desirable objects? How do customization, visual and sound effects make the act of killing satisfying? What remains of a body after death in a video game? And what does this say about our relationship to violence? In these games, nothing is left to chance: pleasure, oblivion, hostility — it's all a question of design. Through a series of classic combat scenes, this immersive documentary invites viewers to observe, question and understand the systems that transform war into a playful experience.
BA Photography
PHOTOGRAPHY
Adel Debabéche – Ouled El Bahdja
by Adel Debabéche
Ouled El Bahdja offers an intimate glimpse into Algerian youth, caught between waiting and the desire to leave. This project explores the mental and physical space of a generation dreaming of elsewhere, in a country where the future feels suspended. It is a portrait of a fragmented daily life, where time stretches into boredom, yet a quiet tension remains—between resignation and hope. An attempt to capture those in-between moments, those gazes turned toward Europe—a collective fantasy, a promise of recognition, but also an uncertain path... Ouled El Bahdja sheds light on a youth that, despite sociopolitical constraints, seeks to build a meaningful existence. A gesture to make visible the dreams and desires for emancipationborn in the shadows.
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Belinda Kiela – Bana Ya Mbòka
by Belinda Kiela
The images in this edition are fragments of an immersion at the University of Kinshasa : a glimpse into student life in a vibrant, ever-moving capital. Through laughter, doubts, and encounters, the photographer has learned to anchor herself in a daily life far removed from the one she knows in Europe. Bana ya Mbóka — children of the country — gives a face to the youths who study, dream, and resist on this campus. Founded in 1954, UniKin aimed to be a leading African institution, but instability slowed that vision. Despite strikes, power cuts, and limited resources, the students she has met exude strength and clarity. This project reveals moments of connection, gestures of resilience, and hopes that persists through it all.
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Delio Testa – Partenopei
by Delio Testa
Naples is a vibrant expression of a people’s deep love for their land. This passion lives on despite the weight of daily chaos and hardships that run deeper than it appears. To understand it, a person must enter Neapolitan life, where devotion to figures from religion, culture or everyday life is everywhere. These icons give strength, inspire creation and sustain a constant desire to celebrate. Neapolitans do not just endure struggle. They turn it into energy and a powerful source of hope. This book reflects that spirit through portraits and documentary work.
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Cedric Zellweger – If life is a video game, the graphics are great, but the plot is confusing & the tutorial is way too long.
by Cedric Zellweger
The project centers around Elon Musk’s life—his career, family, and global influence—viewed through a critical lens. Musk perceives the world as an immense playground, a glossy surface full of contradictions, where his ambiguous ties to Trump further complicate world events. Influenced by Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, the clear American dichotomy between good and evil dissolves; heaven and hell blur into an indistinguishable spectacle. In this context, Texas—where Musk and members of the photographer's family reside —embodies the expansive, protective, hyper-consumerist “American way of life”, fascinated by stars yet anchored beneath a paradoxically unreachable sky. The installation-based project employs various media: 4x5 film photography, a video game, photograms and different objects.
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Eliot Pizzera – Tarèinâ
by Eliot Pizzera
Tarèinâ is a dystopian short film that explores the melting of snow and the impact of climate change on the Swiss Alpine landscapes. Global warming is pushing the snow line higher, leaving lower-altitude ski resorts deserted, littered with ruins and the skeletons of useless infrastructure. In this post-tourism setting, a lone skier glides like a ghost, trapped in an absurd ritual. Inspired by the landscapes of Valais and local myths, the film blends silence, organic sounds, and visual poetry. It incorporates the mythical figure of the Tshaggatta, masked guardians seen in Blatten before the climate disaster of 28 May 2025. Symbols of mystery and resilience, they raise questions about our relationship with the mountains and our desire to shape them in our own image.
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Emanuele Delpozzo – The Sea Speaks More Honestly To Those Willing To Drown
by Emanuele Delpozzo
The sea is an anonymous, ever-changing void where identity, place, and scale dissolve. It gives nothing—what you take from it reveals who you are. The project explores the psychology of journeying and survival, driven by a deep yearning for truth through direct experience. As we temporarily define space, we encounter uncertainty, disorientation, and the collapse of rational perception. In response to distress and displacement, it asks: how is the architecture of the body connected to the architecture around it ? We’ve left behind destruction, now hidden in plain sight. A DIY boat—built from jerry cans and debris along the Portuguese coast—becomes a vessel to the horizon. The outcome is a photographic installation and video performance.
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Ettore Bruni – TOP OF THE WORLD
by Ettore Bruni
TOP OF THE WORLD explores St. Moritz, where luxury and illusion merge into a glittering spectacle. This project reflects on how exclusivity is staged—through symbols, gestures, and codes of visibility. Between curated appearances and the quiet remnants of a vanished season, I document a world designed to be seen. Immersed in this surreal setting, the photographer observed how people perform identity and how a physical place transforms into a digital dream—shaped by stories, filtered moments, and rituals of attention.
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Fredrik Maag – Up There
by Fredrik Maag
Up There looks at Switzerland's role in the “Third Space Age”: an era in which it is no longer states but private companies which are significantly shaping space travel. Although much of the technology that comes to play up there is hardly ever seen, our dependence on it, as well as its geopolitical implications, are extremely far-reaching. The tension between apparent invisibility and simultaneous omnipresence is illustrated on the basis of Swiss involvement in the current Space Race.
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Gabrielle Coué – Sans témoin
by Gabrielle Coué
Cosmetic surgery, both intimate and technical, reflects our modern relationship to the body and its transformation. Sans témoin avoids transformed faces, focusing instead on what remains unseen: places, tools, invisible gestures. It captures the moment when the body changes without being experienced. Anesthesia suspends consciousness; the metamorphosis happens without witness. A desire is expressed, the body entrusted, then awakening. Between the two: a void. This void takes shape in images—cold rooms, metallic tools, close-up skin textures. Little or no human presence, only traces. The body becomes matter, managed within a controlled, standardized system.
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Héloïse Tourrenc – Un battement feutré
by Héloïse Tourrenc
Pigeons have been a part of the photographer's life since childhood. Her grandparents used to raise these birds in a dovecote at the back of their garden. Today, this memory has become the starting point of this photographic project. By tracing the history of these winged companions all the way back to ancient Egypt — where they were raised, respected, and sometimes even venerated — she travels to Cairo, where this tradition still endures today. There, she documents not only the history of pigeon keeping, but also the people she has met and the sensitive bond between humans and pigeons. Through ancestral knowledge, everyday gestures, and collective memory, her images seek to reveal the invisible thread that connects us. The pigeon — a forgotten or despised companion — here becomes the discreet witness of a shared history.
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Inès Riber – Pleasure Boys
by Inès Riber
Pleasure Boys explores the world of male striptease and its representations of masculinity. In collaboration with the british troupe « UK Pleasure Boys », the project questions the tension between power and vulnerability. Through the hypermasculine archetypes and routines of the dancers, the photographer questions the way in which the male body exposes, controls and gives itself away. My images seek to reveal the humanity behind the spectacle: tired, tense or relaxed bodies, intimate moments far removed from performance. They question what it means to be a man when desire becomes performance.
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Jerome Luginbühl – Popcorn
by Jerome Luginbühl
‘In the beginning, nothing dissipates.’ Yara’s story does not begin with light, but in darkness. Born almost blind, now an astrophysicist, my sister does not see the stars with her eyes, but through models, formulas, and light analyses. ‘I am no more than a speck of dust in a breath.’ This is where the film begins: in awe of the invisible. What does it mean to see — to truly see? Between belief and knowledge, numbers and longing, childhood and the cosmos, a space of abstraction, projection and reconstruction emerges. Yara becomes a metaphor for a different perception, a different truth, beyond eyesight.
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Kristina Yenza – YOUNIST'
by Kristina Yenza
This book is not about war, but about how war becomes the backdrop to life. It brings together photographs of young Ukrainians aged between 16 and 29 — the age the photographer was when she left Ukraine, and the age she is now. No matter where you grow up, the transition to adulthood is always a profound, fragile but essential experience. In this country where war is now part of everyday life, there are still young people who fall in love, discover new feelings, doubt and dream. War has not erased these emotions; it has made them deeper. YOUNIST' is about the way we look, the way we act, the silences. It's about how we grow up with what happens to us.
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Lester Kielstein – Osmosis
by Lester Kielstein
Osmosis is a photographic research project that explores how migration is represented and politicized in Germany today. Created during a 13,000 km journey across the country, the work contrasts the visible rise of the far right with the quieter presence of migration, shown through protest images and traces found along the Polish-German border. Rooted in the photographer's personal experience in East Germany, the project reflects on the gap between what is seen and what remains hidden. By combining different visual forms, Osmosis questions who is granted visibility, how national identity is shaped, and how the idea of the border is being redefined.
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Maude Bally – Entre 4 et 8
by Maude Bally
Entre 4 et 8 questions what it means to live with a chronic illness, in the details of everyday life, in the slow wear of a constrained body. It brings together images made for medical purposes, administrative scans, rephotographed screens, and fragments of daily life. Through a fragmented narrative, it presents everything that visually accompanies the management of diabetes. It does not seek a heroic narrative, nor does it dwell in complaint. Only what remains when illness becomes part of normality: curves, numbers, small fluctuations.A visual language rooted in the intimate, an attempt to make a discreet form of resistance visible.
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Rebecca Dubuis – 208 Grace St.
by Rebecca Dubuis
208 Grace St. observe a domestic space where tenderness and ideological fractures coexist. In my grandfather’s house in Oakville (WA), right-wing, conservative, and religious convictions sharply oppose my own. No open conflict, just general unease, inscribed in silences, objects, and daily routines. 208 Grace St. reveals what unfolds when societal deleterious positions surface within family dynamics. No reconciliation, no provocation; only the reality of a glaring divide.
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Sofia Grytsiv – Rebrand
by Sofia Grytsiv
Rebrand is an illusionist performance on Instagram that simulates the rise and fall of a fictional celebrity character played by the photographer. Through staged images and fake media covers, Rebrand explores the mechanisms of celebrity, beauty standards and the treatment of women by the media. Over several months, she develops a realistic narrative tracing the rise of this fictional celebrity, then her fall under the weight of scandal, surveillance and media spectacle. Rebrand uses editorial shoots, paparazzi-style photos, fake brand partnerships and orchestrated scandals. The final work takes the form of a multi-screen video installation retracing this fabricated public life.
