The Indecisive Moment – 2025

The Indecisive Moment – 2025

This exhibition presents the outcome of a five-day workshop led by artist Jaya Pelupessy, where students explored the unstable terrain between creation and reproduction. Through hands-on experiments with various duplication methods and strategies of appropriation, the workshop invited a reconsideration of the image—not as a final product, but as a process, a question, a site of continuous transformation.

Embracing moments of uncertainty, trial and error, and unexpected discovery, participants focused on what Pelupessy calls The Indecisive Moment: the in-between phase where outcomes are unclear and intention is disrupted by chance. These works reflect a shift from the pursuit of fixed meaning toward an image in flux—unfinished, open, and relational.

Workshop (2025) with Jaya Pelupessy

Assistants
Sara De Brito Faustino
Students
Martin Antherieu, Paul Berthon, Nastasia Crohas-Beselia, Simon Devillers, Janne Edel, Mateo Friedrich, Léa Huguenin, Luca Humm, Dahui Jeon, Bogdan Kulyk, Natasha Saccardi, Adriana Saint-Wilkolek, Lucie Schrag, Riccardo Troia, Janine Agbayani, Louise Botti Balaguer, Landelin Schaub, Nicolas Tripod
Workshop
2nd semester
Know-how
Scenography, Imagemaking
Sara De Brito Faustino - ECAL - making off
Sara De Brito Faustino - ECAL - making off
Marvin Merkel - ECAL - making off
Marvin Merkel - ECAL - making off
Calypso Mahieu - ECAL - making off
Sara De Brito Faustino - ECAL - making off

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Marvin Merkel - ECAL - exhibition view
Marvin Merkel - ECAL - exhibition view
Marvin Merkel - ECAL - exhibition view
Marvin Merkel - ECAL - exhibition view

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