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Anna von Allmen – Nos vies sur vos murs

by Anna von Allmen

Nos vies sur vos murs (Our lives on your walls) grew out of a collaboration with fourteen young people from the Pierre-à-Bot neighbourhood in the heights of Neuchâtel. Over a six-month period, I organised workshops with young people aged between seven and twelve, which formed the basis of this experiment. During our meetings, I initiated discussions around the theme of love, a feeling that is often so complex to grasp. I shared moments of their lives with them, collected their texts and asked them to use disposable cameras to draw pictures of love. In this book, our visions come together to create a portrait of the neighbourhood and the imaginary worlds that develop there.

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Antoine Woeffray – I Unfold My Skin In The Morning

by Antoine Woeffray

Antoine_Woeffray: Hi readers! Antoine_Woeffray: I’m Antoine_Woeffray Antoine_Woeffray: But they also call me mr_paramount mr_paramount: Hi readers! mr_paramount: I’m mr_paramount mr_paramount: But my friends call me Antoine mr_paramount: My doctor call me also Antoine_Woeffray mr_paramount: Actually on my ID card the name written is Antoine_Woeffray mr_paramount: But my online lovers call me mr_paramount This project, which takes the form of a book, is an investigation into the representation of the male body and what it means to be a man. A digital construction of a physical being. The body passes through the image before being transformed.

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Barnabé Masson – Encore une nuit sans Georges

by Barnabé Masson

I gathered eight close friends of my father, who passed away ten years ago. Together, we delved into the feelings induced by absence and mourning. With the help of cameras, I observe the bodies of these sixty-year-old men to explore tenderness, emotions, and the various spontaneous manifestations that emerge when they are confronted with strong emotions. These male bodies, usually under constant logical control, in the image of our culture and economy. The video shows hands, arms, faces, and eyes, sometimes embarrassed, sometimes resistant, and sometimes allowing themselves to be overwhelmed by emotions. This work has allowed me, through these men, to reconstruct my father, to confront him, and to examine my relationship with masculinity.

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Lorane Hochstätter – 24

by Lorane Hochstätter

This book explores the complexity of the development of a girl's feminine identity through the education and gaze of her mother, the first and most powerful model of femininity. My mother, former model, seemed to emerge from a magazine cover: the embodiment of overwhelming norms of feminine representation. Our image develops in a mirror: she projects herself onto me, remembering what she was and inspecting what she no longer is; I project myself onto her, seeing what I would like to be but what I'am not. These self-portraits twist and disguise my body, caught between emancipation and subordination to imposed codes. This book deals with the love-rejection relationship between a mother and her daughter, who accompany and evolve together in a never-ending quest: the search for a feminine identity.

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Noé Vercaemst – Cathédrale dans le désert

by Noé Vercaemst

With Davide Fecarotti, a student at Ensp in Arles, we worked as a duo around a geographical area between southern Italy and Sicily. We discovered a particular structure. A structure that exists only in the collective imagination of its inhabitants. Engineers call it “the highest bridge in the world”. Here, it's simply called “ponte”, the bridge that doesn't exist. We arrived here like Ulysses in the Strait of Messina, between Scylla and Carribdis, but without the Argonauts. A ruin, an architectural project, surviving like a myth, a monster, a chimera with arms of steel... but in reality, an instrument of power and seduction, at the service of Italy's political leaders for years.

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Yves Möhrle – BIPEDIE(BOO)

by Yves Möhrle

BIPEDIE(BOO) is a video installation that combines humour and seriousness. Inspired by rockfalls in Switzerland, a modern myth has been created. A personification of rockfalls, embodying the incomprehensible and inexplicable. The videos show a figure walking through the mountains and throwing stones down the slope. Hypocritically, she lectures us. In a naïve hope that small gestures can bring about big changes, the nostalgic aesthetic of the project underlines the link between past and present and raises the question of our management of natural risks. Do our actions really bring progress or do they fight symptoms? What is our role in the Anthropocene? Do our actions influence nature and cause stones to fall?

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Mathilde Lesueur – Collision

by Mathilde Lesueur

From an impressive loss of control to an explosion of shattered glass, I find myself in the middle of a wavering and inevitable chaos. I hold on to an uncertain light and let my body give in to the injuries. Between reconstruction and obsession, Collision explores how car accidents and injuries are shown in modern images. This work mixes the violence of my story with the way I make it attractive and digitalized. I represent myself through the image of broken doll, I create a confusion between the real and the unreal, symbolizing memory after a traumatic event. This project, an installation using chrome and glass, takes place in a setting where the gaze of the others and an injured girl interact.

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Yan Miranda – Reverie Rebirth

by Yan Miranda

Guided by psilocybin, Reverie Rebirth is an intimate journey into trauma healing. These experiences allowed me to reconnect with the innocence of childhood, with myself and with nature. Through new technological tools and analog photography, I was able to document and illustrate the visions of my inner journey. Imbued with Afro-Brazilian divinities, this exploration reflects on my cultural heritage and identity. The evolution of the project moved towards an engagement with nature and ecology. Inspired by a return to Brazil, it symbolizes the confrontation of deeper issues and blends with various artistic typologies to address themes of fear, anger and the degradation of nature.

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Seraphine Sallin-Mason – The ''A'' Word

by Seraphine Sallin-Mason

Abortion is a fundamental right. In the United States, its practice has been restricted in half the country in recent years. The 'A' Word seeks to address this issue. In media, the associated Pro-Life/Pro-Choice iconographies are expressed with similar communication codes. These channels sensationalize the topic to startle and offend. This sensationalism distances us from the reality of abortion and the people seeking access to this care. From this visual material obtained through various resources, The 'A' Word aims to dissolve these mechanisms and reconstruct a more complex vision that, I hope, will allow us to take a critical look at this essential issue.

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Lea Sblandano – Neijuan

by Lea Sblandano

The pixels expand and appear ever closer to the sensible world into which I was born. Neijuan explores the complexities of identity construction in a post-pandemic, hyper-connected world. Meaning "involution" in Mandarin, it evokes a sense of generational fatigue due to an ever-faster and competitive society. Between the feeling of a collective burn-out and the increasingly immersive presence of screens, virtual worlds become places of refuge and safety, but also fertile ground for interested encounters and fantasies. The screen turns into an emancipatory and formative means of connection, while increasingly distancing the individual from the tangible world around them.

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Cyriane Rawyler – Medusa

by Cyriane Rawyler

Medusa is a collaborative project linking performance to hyperfemininity. This physical exploration symbolizes the reappropriation of the body through transformation. The need to exchange and meet these protagonists arose from a personal event that allowed me to regain control of a destroyed space. Blonde hair, length, and shine unite us to create a community. Through photography, the notions of self-image and control interact, creating celestial beings that tame space. Medusa aims to understand and accept the multiple facets of identity, offering a means of rebellion and self-affirmation.

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Hector Codazzi – La Synthèse des Couleurs

by Hector Codazzi

Synopsis : From one image to another, Louise, aged 25, strives to find her place in the demanding world of modeling. As a young photographer being increasingly involved in the world of imagery and advertising through my professional experiences, I wanted to take a closer look at this world that both fascinates and repels me in some ways, but above all intrigues me with its ambiguous relationship to reality. I directed a short film that depicts the trajectory of a model in this industry, a fiction that aims to address several questions : the self-staging induced by the profusion of images, the mechanisms of oppression related to the creation of advertising images, the pursuit of social mobility by young generations and how this pursuit clashes with the reality of the job market.

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Johanna Bommer – Changing Rooms

by Johanna Bommer

Changing Rooms is a site-specific photographic installation about a very recent past. A figure in the transitional period of adolescence navigates commercial and digital environments. She constructs herself through the images she sees, engaging in a form of self-commodification while immersed in these two spaces. A pile of dust, greasy hair or a scratch on an otherwise perfect surface disturb the smoothness of the virtual and the commercial space. She finds comfort in her anonymity. She dislikes being perceived but desires to be seen. A reflection becomes a mirror becomes a screen becomes a door.

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Léa Bevilacqua – Meu Anjo

by Léa Bevilacqua

"I had the occasion to go back to Santarém, in northern Brazil, my origin town to discuss beauty standards, identity, and self-expression with eight individuals I met there. Growing up as a bi-national woman (Swiss and Brazilian), I struggled with conflicting beauty ideals. The people I met there were often seen as weird, ugly, or inadequate by the society, I thought they were unique and brave for standing out in a region that prize conformity over self-expression. These encounters allowed us to share experiences and, on a more political note, emphasize their value in response to the recent rising hate against minorities in Brazil."

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Carla Corminboeuf – Omerta

by Carla Corminboeuf

A performance in a square of light, a surface echoing the competition carpet. A melancholy memory of a carpet that no longer exists, a carpet symbolizing constraints. The body enters this restricted space and measures it to the tempo of a metronome. Repetitive movements follow, until the effort is felt. A live projection is added in the background, produced with two cameras placed in the diagonals of the square, reproducing the jurors' point of view. Video archives footage of training scenes then scrolls past, showing a body forced into contortions by relentless trainers. It's a questioning several aspects of rhythmic gymnastics, a sport I practiced for years, and whose training methods are being questioned by the medical world.

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Matilde Croxatto – them

by Matilde Croxatto

This film is an intimate exploration of masculinity through the prism of faith. We discover the testimonies of eight young men through their relationship with God. Through interviews and scenes from everyday life, they reveal the beauty and complexity of this relationship. Based on my own experience as a believer, I've come to realise that faith, with its vulnerable and intimate qualities, can be seen as an experience that no longer affects traditional masculinity. To verify this, I gave the floor to men who choose the resilient path of faith on a daily basis. Their devotion is brought to light, an expression of the heart that goes beyond gender stereotypes and invites reflection on the humility of the individual towards an entity greater than himself.

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Albane Durand-Viel – Magdalena

by Albane Durand-Viel

Magdalena focuses on a forgotten or unknown female figure, Mary Magdalene. She was Jesus’ favorite, first witness and mysterious apostle. Her story has been written and told by men, who attributed to her several identities : as a saint, a socialite, a prostitute, a lover and a mystic woman. A thousand faces are often attributed to her, preferring to reduce her to erroneous female stereotypes. Yet Mary Magdalene was a key figure in History and a powerful symbol of feminine independence. This project aims to restore her story, by choosing our contemporary era as context. Imagining a scenario in which Mary Magdalene occupies a central place in today's media space, what would her fate and power be?

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Jennica Folkesson – CHACUNE

by Jennica Folkesson

CHACUNE is an installation focusing on the theme of transmission. Clay, a symbol of connections, is extracted and shaped to bear witness to a shared past. The sense of touch, essential and unifying, is employed as a means of creation, linking us women together. Each ceramic piece represents a page in our collective story, shaped by the passage of time. Here, time manifests as a journey. From mother to daughter, from Switzerland to Mexico, we explore the lands that hold our ancestors.

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Léo Paschoud – How to sell online

by Léo Paschoud

This work takes the form of a series of three books compiling images from conversations collected on various online second-hand sales sites. A specific protocol defines the message sent to the sellers to obtain a photo in return. Each book focuses on a specific object: the camera, the mirror, and the laptop webcam. The aim of this project is to explore the behavior of online sellers. To obtain the desired image, with the correct shooting angle, the process relies on their desire to sell these objects and allows for the observation of their different reactions. If the protocol is successful, images are received; otherwise, responses of indignation, annoyance, insults, or even silence are encountered.

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Gilian Cardaci – Pitch Green

by Gilian Cardaci

This work documents the issues surrounding a professional football field and its artificial maintenance. The turf on these pitches must be maintained to comply with the high standards dictated by FIFA to enhance the image of the sport. Specific tools have been developed to meet this demand. Pitch Green turns football on its head with a fascination for what goes on behind the scenes, creating an imagery reminiscent of science fiction. The contrast between the natural turf and these ultra-technological tools lends an absurd edge to their real purpose. These pitches, which appear perfect to the viewer, reveal the excesses of football and its corrupt business.

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Laure Brandford Griffith – La foule nous regarde

by Laure Brandford Griffith

La foule nous regarde revolves around an obsessive gaze on strangers that resonates with the loss of a loved one. In the search for this person, he explores collective identity through clothing, physical attitude and human bonds, where the stranger becomes the reflection of a lost personal history. The crowd is both the plurality of personality in the lost being marked by crises of dissociation, and these unknown people bringing him back into my life.

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Sara De Brito Faustino – Toute petite et vilaine

by Sara De Brito Faustino

“This project presents the home as a place where uncanniness and vernacular commonness exist side by side. Being an intimate space, a home should be a restful and secure place. However, mine has been the scene of some painful events. Today, I see this house as threatening. Uncomfortable and dysfunctional, it bears the scars of the past. In my photographs, I revisit those memories and reclaim my body. My tiny dioramas express my young self’s ideals opposed to the wounds I currently bear. Constructing, deconstructing, objects become bodies, whereas my being feels deformed and petrified. Toute petite et vilaine (“Tiny and Ugly”) creates an antagonistic tension between appealing visuals and disturbing details.“

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Matteo Angelé – If I Could Tell You/Se Potessi Dirtelo

by Matteo Angelé

This reappropriation project attempts to question the influence of context and medium by reusing pornographic images from homosexual magazines of the 1980s – a decade marked by the discovery of AIDS. Originally created for purely pornographic purposes, these images, representing bodies devoid of movement and stemming from bondage culture, describe the male archetype as characterised by Rudy Lemcke in A History of Violence: “Born and shaped by violence (…), we exist in a world where these dynamics of power and control are already operating for, with and against us. The effects of violence are a part of who we are.”

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Valerie Geissbühler – Soft Matter in Interwoven Worlds

by Valerie Geissbühler

“Soft Matter in Interwoven Worlds is a multifaceted installation that brings together narratives focusing on the potato. These stories retrace the tuber’s journey from Peru, its birthplace, to Switzerland. A soft matter is an entity that is perceived as unheroic and taken for granted. Instead of reducing the potato to a food plant, I see it as a resilient carrier of life as well as a creature. The boundaries between endings and beginnings blur as I navigate the ambiguity of birth, growth, death and loss. I merge ancestral knowledge and autofictional imagery by moving among multiple perspectives, territories and times, my bicultural identity and womanhood. All this brings me back to the roots of it all and leaves me to wonder: did I raise you or did you give birth to me?“

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Jessica Dreier – Margem Sul

by Jessica Dreier

"Margem Sul explores the social and political history of Portugal, focusing on the south margin opposite Lisbon. I documented Barreiro, Almada, Moita and Trafaria, with a focus on Segundo Torrão. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, Angolan, Mozambican, Cape Verdean, Guinean and Santomean populations settled here, forming a strong comunity. Local rappers denounce the growing gentrification of Trafaria. The State justifies the demolitions on security grounds but remains evasive about their real motivations. Since the end of 2022, more and more homes have been demolished and people evicted. My work seeks to amplify the voice of the actors, expressing a variety of situations, from wandering to overt situations."

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Louis Victorin Michel – Deus Corporatæ

by Louis Victorin Michel

Deus Corporatæ weaves connections between the world of money and power, attempting to portray the corporate world as a numinous fortress. Its imposing architectures convey a sense of absolute presence, an almost sacred dimension. Symbols are scattered around these places, resembling coats of arms, allowing for the recognition of the various corporations in the city. These glass facades illuminate the surroundings by reflecting light through contemporary materials such as glass and steel. All of the rules of capitalist, globalised work culture create a new contemporary mythology, associated with rituals that foster a sense of belonging to this world. The project seeks to establish these new mythologies of financial power, whose façade appears transparent, but often wields influential power on an international level.

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Noa Chevalley – Bêche pour dame

by Noa Chevalley

“In the middle of this gravel pit, a vast, artificial and monumental landscape, I try to leave my mark. In mimicry of this environment, I cut into the soil with the strength of my arms. The naked body becomes a tool for digging and filming. It is desexualised in this vain and infinite action. I use my strength to feel more powerful and to detach myself from the normative injunctions that are imposed to me. Despite this, I cannot compete with this place. A relentless battle takes place between the shovel and the ground – a battle that breaks the body and dismantles it. This work mirrors the feeling of inadequacy that comes from the dynamic of striving to meet the expectations that are imposed on us. I do not listen to my body anymore and I am conditioned to accept a world that rips it apart.“

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Eloïse Genoud – INSIDE

by Eloïse Genoud

“INSIDE is a project that focuses on contemporary dance, movement and the human body. It stems from my deep passion for dance and aims to capture the essence of this art form from a personal perspective. Drawing from my 18 years of experience as a dancer, I strive to bring forth the energy, collective spirit and love for the stage that is inherent in this art form. INSIDE alludes to that special moment of stepping into the spotlight, where bodies and light come together in a profound connection. This work is not a documentary on dance, but rather an experimental journey where individuals merge into a common entity. A major part of the project was staged, requiring choreography and active participation in the dances designed exclusively for this production.“

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Dominique Bartels – The Threads That Hold the Earth Together

by Dominique Bartels

“Nostalgia for media that resonate with my body. The installation The Threads That Hold the Earth Together explores the plasticity of photographic and videographic image through weaving. Making and juxtaposing photographs is a way for me to create tangible links. The materiality, the body of the image are my starting point. To seize the passage of formlessness to form, I work with different media around linen: the first fabric to cover, clothe and preserve the human body. Three canvases, woven and unwoven with linen, photographic film and magnetic tape, are suspended in space. A video which explores the transformation of flax through different image textures runs in a loop on a TV.“

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Inès Mermoud – OS CRIAS

by Inès Mermoud

OS CRIAS attempts to shed light on the relationship between children living in various favelas in Rio de Janeiro and the violence that surrounds them. It addresses the subject from a personal point of view, based on family stories and experiences. The documentary book evokes Brazil’s political and social issues from a critical perspective, and links together different types of images. A participatory approach is also highlighted.

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Tony Altermatt – huǒlóng

by Tony Altermatt

“ Huǒlóng evokes the memories and feeling that we might get from a country we have never lived in. We explore then intertwine symbols and images, giving birth to our own culture. From East to West, I create my representation of the second generation of the Chinese diaspora. Silently built, two distinct landscapes merge. Our youth evolves, oscillating between two cultures. The osmosis is palpable, between traditional heritage and desire for emancipation. This fictional story is the fruit of a journey. The protagonists gather to exchange their views. We connect lands, objects and environments. This is our way of representing ethnic mixing: a poetic symphony, where boundaries are dissolved.“

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Gaétan Uldry – I NO LONGER LOVE BLUE SKIES

by Gaétan Uldry

The drone is a machine for control, surveillance and suppression that is increasingly used and improved in its technological evolution. The drone acts as a prism that recreates a new reality, filtering and annihilating the real world. The image produced is a kind of mirage, devoid of meaning. The machine creates a deliberate feeling of distance with the need to confront death. This book highlights this new reality by collecting, cropping and assembling images produced by drones to denounce the absurdity and danger of these devices for carrying out violence. It questions the status of these images, whose plasticity and aesthetics obscure and conceal the true nature of their function, which remains to control, monitor and kill.

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Gwendoline Albasini – Dear Kingdom

by Gwendoline Albasini

Dear Kingdom is a story told through storytelling. A fictional figure embodies the princess trapped in her role, the horse who frees her and the witch who casts a spell. These archetypes confront intimate questions about the female gender and seek to dismantle collective ideals. The dream castle, once we look beyond its ramparts, vanishes into thin air. The video immerses the viewer in a world as majestic as it is oppressive. The soundtrack consists of singing and violin. The sounds can be both powerful and frail, revealing the beauty of the disparities. “Dear Kingdom is an appeal to the projections of a social and personal ideal. In this message there is a desire to share my path in this imposing, theatrical and fanciful universe.“

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Samuel Spreyz – MSM. Rx

by Samuel Spreyz

"Are cis gay men trapped in the medical system forever? Like desiring clones under chemical influence, they are enjoying a new sexual revolution – a revolution under legal drugs. If they want to bring liberalism into their sexuality, they have to become long-term patients. By virtue of PrEP, their use of the health system intensifies and MSM Rx is an attempt to represent this era. My visual essay is driven by my fascination for this lifestyle, a fusion of legal and illegal drugs, sultry parties and consensual hardcore practices."

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Diego Fellmann – Lopo

by Diego Fellmann

“This work focuses on the last fragments of memories of one of my relatives, Lopo. Initially destined for a political career, he decided to follow a different path. Leaving his family home with his savings, he journeyed through the deserts and salt flats of the Altiplano, seeking his own way. Several years later, my father found his trace in a hotel where they had recorded some songs that Lopo had composed, drawing inspiration from his journey. After that, he mysteriously disappeared and there is almost no trace of him left, except for these recordings. Using models and landscapes, I explore the flaws of memory and their volatile nature and attempt to recreate a portrait of him based on the rare and last memories that my father and mother have of him.“

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Ulises Lozano – Coming in

by Ulises Lozano

“Adolescence is synonymous with identity construction. Identity is redefined by today’s youth. The aesthetics they adopt reflect a desire for singularity in a changing society. In a collaborative way, I accompany a process of self-affirmation. They blossom and I offer them a space in which to express themselves. Photography takes shape: a safe place for participants to unfold their fantasised personalities – a kind of alter ego in the making. These self-portraits echo the intimate experience of coming in. They become moments of breath, of reconciliation. Through encounters, drawing and photography, they reveal their intimate selves to me. Coming in is a visual interpretation of this process.“

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Yann Difford – Is it a mirage or an oasis?

by Yann Difford

“Exoticism stems from what is distant and unfamiliar, but above all from a point of view. This project questions the desire for exoticism, the way it is expressed and unfolded, in a generally unidirectional Western context; i.e. from the West to the rest of the globe. This reconsideration helps us grasp that this is not a state of affairs, but rather a process of exoticisation. I deconstruct this process by decontextualising and recontextualising exotic symbols.“

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Basil Pérot – As Long as You Wait

by Basil Pérot

This short film is about expressing our inability to come to terms with reality, especially during traumatic events. To reach this state of osmosis, we try to observe, feel, and listen as intensely as we can. This is how Pola’s character tries to grasp reality, as she slowly sinks into madness, between paranoia and identity crisis. The project appears as a transcription of Pola’s point of view and of the feelings she experiences. A book will compile Pola’s thoughts that she writes throughout the film in a burst of lucidity through which she tries to convince herself that what she is experiencing is real.

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Camille Spiller – Smooth Space

with RVB Books/Matthieu Charon & Rémi Faucheux

« My work focuses on the construction of the city and addresses my own critical position within the extensive social fabric produced by the city. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s “smooth space” — i.e., open, free-flowing, multidimensional — this work analyses and connects urbanisation processes in various West European cities. Fragments of prefabricated buildings, office blocks and streets aggregate chaotically. By further warping their aspect through the photographic lens their chaos is accentuated thus generating an atmosphere of doubt. Collage in post-production pushes distortion to the point of creating a conundrum between optical illusion and constructed reality.»

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Samara Krähenbühl – Il est passé tout à l'heure, il m'a dit de rien dire

by Samara Krähenbühl

« At the turning point of the transition to adulthood, childhood and its memories re-emerge more than ever. Through a short film at the edge of video art, I question how to overcome one’s traumas and reappropriate one’s life experiences and grey areas. Because of its dreamlike character, the film takes on a surrealist tone. Through visual metaphors and mental imagery, I exorcise an intimate and painful episode of my childhood.»

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Marvin Merkel – Kuh Vache Mucca

by Marvin Merkel

« Kuh Vache Mucca is an installation through which I question my relationship with Swiss national identity. Having neither passport, family or roots in Switzerland, I have never identified as a Swiss national. The images and sculptures that make up this project bear witness to my attempts at reconciliation with my homeland and its national identity. These clumsy or even failed attempts offer a new approach to national identity. They make the traditions, customs, figures and monuments that every citizen has learned to praise look comical and absurd and thus question their existence. Is it still necessary and legitimate nowadays to maintain a country’s national identity?»

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Yolane Rais – Nagual

by Yolane Rais

« Nagual is the word used by shamans to define the world of the invisible. This project is presented as a sensory installation in a mysterious and spiritual realm, an exploration at the border between the world of the living and the world of the invisible, an attempt to materialise the immaterial that seeks to show other forms of bodies. This project focuses on the sacred and on beliefs through the experience of a different type of reality. It is an introspective work where I transcribe visions that I experienced during various trips made in the presence of shamans. With the different elements I present, I aim to highlight our link to nature and the living, the goal being to show a different perspective and an alternative way to relate to the world.»

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Ludivine Keller – Girovago sulla risacca cercandoti

by Ludivine Keller

« Girovago sulla risacca cercandoti is the story of a dreamlike wandering experience that I went through after the loss of a loved one. This project brings together several symbols that have become obsessive for me over the last few years, developing in a back-and-forth fashion like emotional backwash. It is the result of several trips to Italy, suspended moments and life-saving free dives. Water serves as a temporal bridge to the projections created by absence and a creatura-musa guides us through this world of dreams. The publication translates the ambivalent and fluctuating sensations of this wandering, while the collage-sculptures highlights this desire to recreate amalgams to fill a void.»

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Julie Corday – De taille d'une mandarine

by Julie Corday

« This is a physical and psychological trauma that took place in my childhood. At the age of 9, a stone the size of a tangerine hit my left eye. Today I am trying to reconnect the woman I am with the little girl who almost lost her sight 20 years ago through photography. Several surgeries and significant loss of vision gave rise to fears and anxieties of being blind or disfigured. By weaving links between my personal history, mental images and the perception of the world around me, I offer a story composed of my childhood words and visual metaphors to recount this accident.» - Julie Corday

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Florian Hilt – New Order

by Florian Hilt

« New Order generates a series of encounters and interactions between distant elements through multiple approaches in the visual, digital and installation fields. Through these exchanges, I reveal my secret nature: my impulses, fears and dreams. By exploring them as infinite spaces with multiple levels of information, past, present and future mix to reveal new assemblages. My collection is made of contrasted fragments: web archives and smartphone pictures, ancient-looking artefacts and video games. The installation acts as a chaotic self-portrait and allows viewers to choose their own path and question themselves. By linking the elements that compose it, each experience is the result of a new order.» - Florian Hilt

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Angèle Marignac-Serra – Isula Anima

by Angèle Marignac-Serra

« As everything regenerates, I wander the island of my ancestors. This book captures my encounter with the souls of this place and the invisible realm. I am confronted with a harsh and confidential geological world. None of my close family members reside there anymore. The various protagonists constitute clues, traces bearing the three kingdoms of the living. They become my clan. I become an archaeologist of this land. Animated by ancestral vernacular beliefs, the landscapes become anthropomorphised. It is a tribute to the secret nature, to the imperceptible, in search of a face in the stone, the trees, the sky. I leave room for my imagination and fantasise modern ruins like posthumous signs. The border with death becomes more and more tangible.»

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Lisa Mazenauer – Copper Tales

by Lisa Mazenauer

What links embodied desires with the spirals of open-pit mines? Copper Tales is an installation that addresses mining operations through the sensitive bodies that are involved in it. Based on the site of the Rio Tinto mines (Spain) crossed by an acidic river, the project connects different actors participating in the extraction of raw materials. The – archaeological, geological, human, bacterial – traces marked on the grounds are projected together in a future narrative.

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Steven Rüthy – Insight

by Steven Rüthy

« Do we still see everything that happens around us ? Insight is a short film set in an architectural social housing complex in Bümpliz-Bern, which offers a unique perspective of the world as viewed by an elderly couple living in the Holenacker district on the outskirts of the Swiss capital. In this project I confront the viewer with a way of life which for us as visual artists and most likely for many others, is unimaginable. I question the spatial notion of a secure/safe space and how it is used and therefore perceived from an external point of view, my own. Insight therefore consists of stepping into the shoes of someone who has blurred vision, understanding what it is like and how it affects the way you live.»

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Clara Roumégoux – Territoires du geste

by Clara Roumégoux

The video Territoires du geste features portraits of women of different generations living in France with a dual cultural identity. From gesture to speech, the question of transmission emerges thanks to a modest mechanism, where material and immaterial dimensions meet between stories and culinary activities. How does the gesture become a symbol of silent resistance? The kitchen stages the political elements that history reveals. From couscous to meatballs, ma’amoul and Turkish coffee, these foodstuffs of historical and cultural heritage bring us back to the resulting spiritual heritage. The movement of the hands sets the stage for the political elements that their words weave, right down to the psyche of dreams and fears.

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Justine Willa – Where Are the Exits up There?

by Justine Willa

«In the summer of 2021, Asclepios, a scientific association, organised a mission in the Swiss Alps, simulating life on a celestial body other than Earth. Confined for ten days in tunnels 450 metres below the ground, six “astronauts” transformed this hideout into an otherworldly place and modelled their daily life on the rhythm of life in space. This retro-futuristic scenario, seen in scientific circles and science fiction, questions reality, the projection of reality and the resulting image. Based on their mission, my project transcribes the fantasy of space exploration through immersion, mixing the reality of the situation with artificial images, and questions our place in the universe and our role in the future of humanity.»

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Anna von Allmen – Nos vies sur vos murs

Antoine Woeffray – I Unfold My Skin In The Morning

Barnabé Masson – Encore une nuit sans Georges

Lorane Hochstätter – 24

Noé Vercaemst – Cathédrale dans le désert

Yves Möhrle – BIPEDIE(BOO)

Mathilde Lesueur – Collision

Yan Miranda – Reverie Rebirth

Seraphine Sallin-Mason – The ''A'' Word

Lea Sblandano – Neijuan

Cyriane Rawyler – Medusa

Hector Codazzi – La Synthèse des Couleurs

Johanna Bommer – Changing Rooms

Léa Bevilacqua – Meu Anjo

Carla Corminboeuf – Omerta

Matilde Croxatto – them

Albane Durand-Viel – Magdalena

Jennica Folkesson – CHACUNE

Léo Paschoud – How to sell online

Gilian Cardaci – Pitch Green

Laure Brandford Griffith – La foule nous regarde

Sara De Brito Faustino – Toute petite et vilaine

Matteo Angelé – If I Could Tell You/Se Potessi Dirtelo

Valerie Geissbühler – Soft Matter in Interwoven Worlds

Jessica Dreier – Margem Sul

Louis Victorin Michel – Deus Corporatæ

Noa Chevalley – Bêche pour dame

Eloïse Genoud – INSIDE

Dominique Bartels – The Threads That Hold the Earth Together

Inès Mermoud – OS CRIAS

Tony Altermatt – huǒlóng

Gaétan Uldry – I NO LONGER LOVE BLUE SKIES

Gwendoline Albasini – Dear Kingdom

Samuel Spreyz – MSM. Rx

Diego Fellmann – Lopo

Ulises Lozano – Coming in

Yann Difford – Is it a mirage or an oasis?

Basil Pérot – As Long as You Wait

Camille Spiller – Smooth Space

Samara Krähenbühl – Il est passé tout à l'heure, il m'a dit de rien dire

Marvin Merkel – Kuh Vache Mucca

Yolane Rais – Nagual

Ludivine Keller – Girovago sulla risacca cercandoti

Julie Corday – De taille d'une mandarine

Florian Hilt – New Order

Angèle Marignac-Serra – Isula Anima

Lisa Mazenauer – Copper Tales

Steven Rüthy – Insight

Clara Roumégoux – Territoires du geste

Justine Willa – Where Are the Exits up There?