ICI UNE PLANTE A ÉTÉ VOLÉE PAR UNE PERSONNE SANS SCRUPULE ET SANS RESPECT POUR NOTRE COLLECTION

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Asia Lapai – ICI UNE PLANTE A ÉTÉ VOLÉE PAR UNE PERSONNE SANS SCRUPULE ET SANS RESPECT POUR NOTRE COLLECTION

"THIS PLANT HAS BEEN STOLEN BY A PERSON WITHOUT SCRUPLES AND WITHOUT RESPECT FOR OUR COLLECTION" is a sentence taken from the signs in the greenhouse of the Geneva Botanical Garden, added when a plant goes missing. It opens a reflection on exoticism as a production of narratives and power relations, structured by the opposition between "here" and "elsewhere". Little Chewy is a meeting with a dock worker from Liverpool, a former major port of the transatlantic slave trade. These fragments give rise to contradictory or revised narratives, maintained in opacity. This project questions desire, power, and representation, as well as the colonial shaping of spaces and its lasting effects on living beings, through the hypothesis of a necro-aesthetic regime.

Diploma project (2026)

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by Camila Polania

Some say the body arrives first, and the soul takes longer. This installation begins with that delay, in the tension between presence and absence. Instructions of Rematriation is a video installation projected onto a wind-moved fabric, a surface that never fully settles. In front, white Rimax chairs evoke everyday spaces of waiting across Latin America: porches, patios, sidewalks. The work follows the passing of a single day, tracing the slow return to the body after displacement. Through video, writing, textile, and sound, the installation holds a kind of return, not geopolitical, but personal and ancestral: a political and spiritual reconnection with what was once left behind.
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