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Seline Symons – Groot geel object
by Seline Symons
Inspired by everyday, banal forms, I revisit our world to create new combinations. A game of childlike wonder. There is room for play, imagination and personal interpretation.
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Romane Roy – OVERRULED
by Romane Roy
[…] You know I've never been to one of these things before and when I think about how many people wanted this, and how many people cried over it and stuff, I mean, I think everybody looks great tonight. Look at Jessica Lopez, that dress is amazing and Emma Gerber that hair do must have taken hours and you look really pretty. So why is everybody stressing over this thing? I mean it's just plastic, it's really just (she breaks the crown). A piece for Gretchen Wieners, a partial Spring Fling Queen. A piece for Janis Ian and a piece for Regina George, she fractured her spine and she still looks like a rockstar, and some for everybody else. (Cady’s prom speech in MEAN GIRLS)
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Ella Minton – Untitled
by Ella Minton
My diploma project is an self-portrait created using ball point pens and Chinese ink on six sections of cardboard that are one metre by eighty centimetres put together to create a three metre by one metre sixty piece. The goal of the project is to represent uncertainty, anxiety and internal conflict. Leaving blank space to play an equally important role as the filled in sections, to reinforce the loss of self in this emotional whirlwind.
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Romain Rochat – Bunny Express
by Romain Rochat
But he was going at 100 km/h after all
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Tom Grbic – Imagine ne pas pouvoir fuir, performance continue de la tolérance et de laa raison
by Tom Grbic
Imagine not being able to run away is a continuous performance lasting the whole day. It aims to show the principle of ‘trans work’ theorised by Josephine Gilles Harris in 2019. J. G. Harris highlights, among other things, the fact that queer people need to maintain a constant performative state in order to be able to navigate the world in an ‘understandable’ way. With an activation of texts by Laurène Marx, Tom Grbic, Josephine Gilles Harris and Adel Tincelin, it is also an effort to inscribe ourselves in a lineage, a critical and welcoming queer History.
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Patricia Araujo – Saudade
by Patricia Araujo
«Os olhos da nossa memória vêem melhor do que os nossos.» — «The eyes of our memory see better than ours.» José Sobral Almada-Negreiros How do we know our memories are real and not dreamlike?
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Giada Gollin – "Ohh I should never have ordered a 3rd bratmeal"
by Giada Gollin
„Just like… Like G G G Like Gugus starts with G and...“
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Achille Meier – Let them rest
by Achille Meier
When the juices stick to the burning metal, deglaze generously with white wine.
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Romain Deriaz – That'll do, Donkey. That'll do.
by Romain Deriaz
Huit peintures à l'huile de colza AOP certifié durable, but in English
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Charlie Jannes – Frame by frame
by Charlie Jannes
"Pattern, itself an architectural species, reflects order and stability. Then a need to create chaos as though life itself were taking place. Finally, the bonding (layer by layer), the interpretation of paint, fabric, photograph, tea towel, ribbon, lace, and glue. A collage : a simultaneity; a visual dazzlement, a multilayering, a final message for the senses. (…)"
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Anna Kawahara – Panneau à souffler
by Anna Kawahara
"So, what should we choose? Weight or lightness?"
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Fanny Dunning – Figures in a landscape
by Fanny Dunning
thinking of sculptures in a big garden, on acres of land popping up like hills but hills with crowns of horns here function follows form. it has built this as a sculpture. then installed its mirrors. thinking of sculptures in a big garden people inviting artists to come and stay
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Tianchang Gu – Papers, please
by Tianchang Gu
The title of my graduation work comes from the video game of the same name and is the sequel to my thesis “Renens Palace”, an autofiction based on a dystopian future. In this fiction, the “self”, a former immigrant in Europe, becomes an immigration officer. How can writing be transformed into performance? The observed becomes the observer. The formerly oppressed blends into the system and becomes a person of authority. Bureaucratic gestures turn into choreography. Official documents become poems. Administrative motifs and symbols of power turn into visual aesthetics. These are the questions I contemplate during this creative process. All these strangely romanticised and anxiety-inducing elements evoke a reality we don’t always want to confront.
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Yann Fankhauser – Étendard du marcheur
by Yann Fankhauser
This project is a print on a PVC tarpaulin (2500 mm x 1200 mm) of 18 silhouettes in boxes forming a black and white checkerboard. The development of the project was done from hand-made sketches, then digitised with Illustrator and arranged in a checkerboard. These sketches of silhouettes were made through various processes: 1) the modification of an initial silhouette to create a new one, 2) the juxtaposition of several silhouettes with each other, and 3) by illustrating a new angle of a silhouette already created. The concept revisits the idea of a motor-racing finish flag, transforming it into an endless journey, playing on the boundary between the figurative and the abstract in the image of pareidolia.
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Ysé Willemin – Move in/Move out/Move on
by Ysé Willemin
(Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah) (Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah) (ah-ah) (Ah, ah, ah-ah) ‘Cause when love is gone There’s always justice And when justice is gone There’s always force And when force is gone There’s always Mom, hi Mom (Ah, ah) (Ah, ah, ah-ah) I have no choice, I don’t know what to do So hold me, Mom, in your long arms In your automatic arms, your electronic arms In your arms So hold me, Mom, in your long arms Your petrochemical arms, your military arms In your electronic arms (Ah, ah-ah)
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Laura Hagmann – Im sorry I’m a mess
by Laura Hagmann
I had a flashback of something that never existed.
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Alix Bitz – Lotto(-portrait), 2023
by Alix Bitz
Installation objects & lithographs Size: approx. 2 x 2 m At eye level, a white line. A void. Looking up, a series of self-portraits stare back at us. Faces in transmutation. A single portrait cannot show the full extent of a being. So it unfolds before exploding to better reappear. Underneath, a collection of objects, like the wanderings of a life that has led to this moment and stops. Memories flow from the heads that have become objects. Through this staging, the shattered quest for a self that slips away as soon as we seem to approach it.
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Clément Grimm – Le géant se regarde dans le miroir et ne vit rien
by Clément Grimm
No sinister prop adds banal meaning. No melodramatic detail usurps an easy role. All the painter had to do was interpret the figures’ energy, expression, attitudes and gestures in his sober, masterly style.
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Ali Chatila – 14 juin 2023
by Ali Chatila
My graduation project consists of four 90 x 200 cm wooden boards – in total, eight sides on which I have been painting for over two years. I paint mainly for the pleasure of painting and like to focus on the present moment. At the end of my studies, I will continue working on these four boards. They are therefore not finished and may never be. The title of the work announces the temporary interruption. I do not have any particular technique; I just paint with what I find. My four boards were salvaged from a dumpster and most of the material I use was destined to be thrown away. For my installation, my paintings are fixed on the wall, revealing only the four sides.
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Mariana Isler – AR
by Mariana Isler
Real, fluid and elusive love reveals itself in the fabric of the city, circulating in the invisible vein of beings. Installation, honeycombed polycarbonate panels, acrylic paint.
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Mathilde Hansen – Advertise what makes you crazy
by Mathilde Hansen
Could you take a picture of me like this? Where I’m standing, here From the other side? Is it better like this? Do I look cool? More serious or smiling? More serious, ok Great.
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Noemi Leneman – Lolita
by Noemi Leneman
Lolita is a filmed ballet opera starring a dancer named Lolita. In order to bend to the gaze, desire and projections of her chosen one, she tries out several roles. First, she is a ballerina, trapped in a music box; then a shepherdess, an ambiguous figure who goes from admiration for to power over, and submission to her lambs; and finally, an opera singer who gradually transforms into a wolf. This video disrupts and plays with the aesthetic codes of traditional stage representations. Eva Galmel has been teaching me to dance on pointe. Around this project, a group of young artists from my entourage formed, collaborating for several months, trying to achieve a female gaze. Choreographers: Philomène Jander and Eva Galmel Scenography: Salomé Engel Costumes: Adèle Berson and Roxane Sauvage
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Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio – Cinétoile et Life is filled with secrets and treasures everywhere
by Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio
“I think that the goal of installation art should be to create an experience between objects so that viewers are transported outside themselves to recognise a larger, more complex world.” – Julie Becker
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Shkelqim Qestaj – Cirque d’amour
by Shkelqim Qestaj
The sky lacks wings. We’re still looking for those places. Places to love and embrace each other. Modern comfort. In the starless morning, you bring me roses, I send you back with thorns. Outdated body and soul. We never lose sight of the shadow for the prey. Balance is our law. We leave to explore what lies behind the wall. We can walk a tightrope without danger. Dance without falling into the void.
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Lylou Müller – My safe space isn’t my safe space anymore
by Lylou Müller
This work summons reflection on concepts of security, isolation and protection. The veil, which is woven in the manner of chainmail armour, invites us to reconsider the space of the bedroom, of intimacy, in a context of violence.
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Axel Mattart – Be afraid. Be very afraid.
by Axel Mattart
It won’t even blink. Mostly because it can’t. YOU are on its last optical nerve!
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Nolan Lucidi – Petite annonce
by Nolan Lucidi
I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder.
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Julie Wuhrmann – Untitled
by Julie Wuhrmann
« Je suis gueïe, eh toi tu aïe guette aussie ? » Guillaume Dustan, “Queer”“, e.m@le, n°66, 1999 “Je suis gueïe, eh toi tu aïe guette aussie?” Guillaume Dustan, “Queer”, e.m@le, n°66, 1999
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Florentina Walser – Don’t touch my car!!! & You’re so hilarious, next time the circus comes to town I’ll sell you as a clown
by Florentina Walser
There is quite some ambiguity between real PORTRAIT ideation and imaginative/role play, almost dress-up-play – dressing up IN THE BROADEST SENSE OF THE TERM, the idea of looking at oneself from an outside perspective. It makes me wonder, who or what it actually is, that is being COMPOSED here: is it really the ORDER OF THINGS (or a social, political, visual, formal, physical, scientific VERSION OF imitation), as could be easily concluded? Is it a proxy-pleasure for someone – or rather for something – else? Or is the desire to imagine itself a proxy emotion/activity…? What follows is a perfectly choreographed ballet of violence, because as we know, to talk about Camp is to betray it. And this we must respect!
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Léonard Vazquez Vila – Do not Seek this Word
by Léonard Vazquez Vila
In order to translate the madness of the procedures, to explain our ability to recognise and expand, we must repeat the explanation that can only succeed. From the same two heads to the same intelligence, the very ability to fear only spells as it goes without examples. The imposition of self to self, where only small changes in learning and repeating must be understood in their true sense: the derisive power to unveil things. The properties of the madman, the freedom of renouncing difference, the guts and the coincidence of the tools of language do their work. Beyond the transparencies of the mind, the discourse of the circle arises. The desire to communicate with others and to read everything like an arbitrary thinking being.
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Flavio Visalli – Forde Mustang
by Flavio Visalli
"And if a double-decker bus crashes into us To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die." I was looking at these hills of wheat that reminded me of distant landscapes. Those that the wind outlines during stormy nights. The black anvil is freed from its weight and becomes sensitive to blows. I was thinking about your message, it reminded me of the howling sound of a V12. Carbon fibre, oak and acrylic paint
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Roxane Christinet – Truthfully, I Don’t Know What it Means to Feel Self-confident
by Roxane Christinet
Dissect a plant or a body. Breathable material. Evidence of different liquids.
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Hlynur Snær Andrason – Chance Garden
by Hlynur Snær Andrason
A small garden is displayed in a hard case. Last autumn, three containers of fertile soil were dug in various construction sites around Lausanne. This summer, the sites had changed. One container was lost, one was destroyed and another contained various plants. Inside there was a small cross section of the most common plants in the area, like a snapshot of the local area. These are plants that would normally classify as weeds – flowers you would find in the parking lot of botanical gardens. Yet these plants had found the conditions they needed within the container. They were brought inside, replanted and preserved using the same forces humans first learned to tame: shelter, light and nutrition. What would you catch in your garden?
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Salomé Engel – La première course
by Salomé Engel
" ‘Don’t waste time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.’ Coco Chanel I would only add: 3, 2, 1, go!"
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Soren Gunzinger – A Cool View Over the Empire
by Soren Gunzinger
This installation consists of two videos. The first is an animation set within the project that Adolf Loos thought up for Josephine Baker, about a spider spy who finds herself to be a critic. The second lights up a blind with a short dialogue. The work addresses issues of quotations and voyeurism, as well as comic effects and twists.
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Emily Orlet – Frontières
by Emily Orlet
The background of my series is borders and the space created by them, which builds up a relation of proximity or distance. At the same time, I work with usual, everyday materials.
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Oriane Emery – Midnight Conversations
by Oriane Emery
"I am interested in the physical and mental projections that our minds generate in the space we all share. I create narratives within which I can anchor myself. My paintings represent dreamlike worlds, narratives of emancipation. Organic and in constant gestation, above all, they aim to create ecosystems. My practice is multifaceted. I seek to extract myself from the frame, to underline its limits. Linked to the public, my work explores our relationship with space, both architectural and political. Through performance, I create a climate of tension with the viewers. I seek to soothe as much as to disturb… I don’t have the answer."
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Maria Esteves – The Fast Moo & The Big Razzle Dazzle
by Maria Esteves
"♫ Walk with me through my fanfare It’ll ease your mind Set you fine ♫"
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Léna Gelsomino – Castle Luggage
by Léna Gelsomino
Plexiglas, transparent vinyl, rusty chains 1.5m x 2m Castle Luggage presents a jewellery assemblage crafted for imaginary castles. Just as I apply makeup or create props for my performances, my castles contain tales of wonder and horror which leads them to become the narrators of their own story. Tailor-made, these adornments create an interplay and a dialogue between myths and the subject who tells them. This long ornament slides over a transparent scenic installation, from which emerge the drawings of these castles and dreamlike islands, thus revealing this autonomous place of expression, which calls upon our own memory, experience and imagination.
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Chloé Geinoz – Metropol
by Chloé Geinoz
"Also known as Devil’s apple or Devil’s turnip, it was said that anyone who pulled a mandrake out of the ground would go mad when they heard its cry. To prevent this, a dog was tied to the plant and then scared off so that it would dig up the plant as it ran away. When a mandrake is pulled out of the ground, it should be placed in a fountain immediately for a day and a night, so that every evil and contrary humour may be expelled from it." Hildegard von Bingen
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Line Petitguyot – Stalactite
by Line Petitguyot
My dissertation focuses on reflections about the personification of various elements of nature. The death of my father and the violence I suffered have permeated my work process. These events have been integrated into the development of my work. My graduation project is linked to this emotional heritage. It is reflected in its form by the individuality of the various elements that constitute the installation. The sculptural identity is accompanied by a text dedicated to each body. The stalagmites relate to the beginning as well as the end of a cycle. The movement on the PVC plates obtained by the scraper symbolises this cyclical transition, and the different strata that are visible through the transparency of the material offer a reading like a core sample.
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Iacopo Spini – Untitled
by Iacopo Spini
A WHOLE LIFE SPENT SEARCHING FOR THE PURITY OF A FLOWER THROUGH THE ARTIFICIALITY OF THE MEDIA, MY BODY RIGHTLY UNDERSTANDS THAT I AM A HYPOCRITE AND PRODUCES STAMINA usually allergy is a mistake, some non-harmful substances are exchanged as such IN THIS CASE NO, IT WAS A CLEAR MESSAGE FREEDOM FLOWERS AND PLANTS
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Alexis Colin – I wanted to design a desert
by Alexis Colin
"I was working as an interior designer in New York; one morning John Allen called me and said: - I want you to design the desert!"
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Virginie Sistek – Bienpeureuse
by Virginie Sistek
Mention Très bien Prix Visarte Vaud + Prix Ernest Manganel A____A |・ㅅ・| |っ ｃ| HI HI HELLO HI | | EACH MISUNDERSTANDING | | IS AN OPEN DOOR TO | | DISRUPTIVE REALITIES | | | | enjoy U￣￣U
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Evelyn Vonesch – Sub Rosa
by Evelyn Vonesch
Behind the shots, behind the frames, behind the scenes, Behind the protective walls and behind the screens, There, sub rosa, well sheltered, Hides the long, smooth thread That comes out of life. A cloud-like fibrous substance that feeds the cotton seeds, That keeps them alive, traps them but never soothes them, In its sun-drenched homeland. A thread of inclination and attachment, Connecting all and pointing to all. It never flaunts its beginning or its end. Real dramas are not played out in the limelight. When the curtain falls, look behind the scenes.
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Terat Thanaworrawatniti – Gong Tek
by Terat Thanaworrawatniti
Gong Tek refers to a Sino-Thai funeral where burning paper model replicas is a ritual used to offer objects to the dead. The video installation explores the relationship between physical and intangible spaces, such as virtual and cultural ones. The work captures the moment where these objects are transformed and translated into something else. By repurposing traditional elements and changing their context, tension between translation and mistranslation is created. When the light switches on, the viewer is challenged with a new space, which calls into question the process of image construction.
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Nicolas Ponce – L'action se passe dans une rue, dans un champ, et dans un bois
by Nicolas Ponce
Ulysses is hidden behind the fir trees, Raphaël in the tool shed, Timothé in the middle of the corn, and me, under the window.
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Eliot Möwes – Flat
by Eliot Möwes
A cone and a cylinder serving as a structure for the painting.
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Ana Francesca Bălan – Songs for the Ceiling
by Ana Francesca Bălan
Silk, plush, acrylic, ceramic.
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Adèle Anstett – Too Old for the Playground, Where Should We Hang ?
by Adèle Anstett
“Only a few of us, amid the great fabrications of society, hang on to our really childish reactions, still wonder naively what we are doing on the earth and what sort of joke is being played on us. We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.” — Bataille, G. (1949). The Cruel Practice of Art Featuring transverse and hybrid spaces, closed and open, which bear witness to a process of construction of oneself and of the group by the appropriation of these spaces and their transformation, thanks to the childish character of each one. Twisting things, commuting rigid structures through use and escapig determinism with a certain lightness.