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EXECAL Resident at La Becque in July 2024
Born in Montpellier in 1997, Hugo Hectus is a French visual artist living and working in Paris, whose practice aims to deconstruct modes of communication in an attempt to outline their autonomous, subjective essence and a new sensitive language. His artistic production operates in a dual relationship: the obscure one maintained by art and literature, which he articulates under the idea of “solid poetry”, seeking through his sculptures the appearance of an ideal language, a language of desire, populated by other cultural ghosts from the English, German, Italian and Latin languages. A language “in space”, frozen in matter as if it pre-existed everything, enabling him to write without describing or showing, and constructed in a lexicon specific to each “Mottogories” – symbolic phrases of sorts that become matter and are integrated into the sculptures themselves.
After studying at the Sorbonne Paris IV University, Hectus graduated with a Bachelor Graphic Design from ECAL in 2021, and a BA in Visual Arts from École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA). He is currently pursuing a Master in Visual Arts at ENSBA. Hectus’s work has recently featured in group exhibitions at Tunnel Tunnel in Lausanne (2023), Krone Couronne in Biel (2022), One gee in fog in Geneva (2022), and in solo exhibitions at ENSBA in Paris (2022) and ECAL in Lausanne (2021).
Portrait photo: Pavo Marinovic
EXECAL Resident at La Becque · September 2024 · Master Fine Arts 2020
Born in Paris in 1995, Hanna Rochereau lives and works in Marseille. She graduated from ECAL in 2020 with a Master's degree in Fine Arts - European Art Ensemble, and has been active on the contemporary scene in Marseille since 2020. She was a resident at Les Ateliers de la Ville, supported by Triangle Astérides, and co-founded the artist-run space Hasch from 2022 to 2023. Among other exhibitions, she has been invited to show at La Friche belle de and La Traverse (Marseille), Tonus and The Community (Paris), Collection Lambert (Avignon), Laurence and Friends (Geneva), Palazzina (Basel), Lokal-int (Biel), Sentiment (Paris - Zurich), SET (London), 13 Vitrine and Alienze (Lausanne).2024 will see Hanna present two exhibitions at La Fonda (Biarritz) and Shmorévaz (Paris).
ECAL Resident at La Becque from February to July 2019
Mitch Paone, partner and creative director at renowned Brooklyn-based creative design agency DIA Studio. Specialized in kinetic identity systems, graphic design and typography, Mitch Paone spent four months at La Becque developing his own research project while guest lecturing during the entire spring semester at ECAL, in the Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programmes.
EXECAL Resident at La Becque in july 2022 - BA Graphic Design graduate 2008
Art director and graphic designer, Emmanuel Crivelli explores the editorial world by questioning paper and digital formats. After his studies in graphic design at ECAL, he works with Philippe Jarrigeon and Sylvain Menétrey for the magazine Dorade - "Revue galante, photographie et formes critiques", which won the Swiss Design Awards in 2012. He then creates, in collaboration with an editorial team, POV Paper and POV magazine, which deal with gender and sexualities. In 2018, he won the mandate from the Federal Office of Culture to create the visual identity of the Swiss Design Awards until 2021. This project becomes a digital editorial content lab, with interactive articles, talks and live chats.
Loucia Carlier is a French artist and editor, born in 1992 in Paris. She graduated with a Master’s in Visual Arts – European Art Ensemble from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in 2017. She was awarded the Révélation Émerige grant in 2020, was a resident at Villa Belleville in 2023, and is currently in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
Images, symbols, objects, and texts are assembled through embossing, printing, and modeling on the surface of her works, blending sculpture and painting. These compositions form hybrid landscapes of a post-humanity undergoing reorganization. A network of archetypal images and organic elements swell and work from within each of her pieces, where the possibility of a subjective, relative, and resilient cosmology opens up through ruptures. The interdependence of the body and environment is not necessarily the most uplifting in the era of capitalism, patriarchy, and ecological crisis; her work tells the underlying anxieties of a generation born in the 90s. Caves, parts of bodies, architectures mixed with medical, ufological, or psychedelic imagery are printed and sculpted onto the surface of her pieces. Sometimes enhanced with makeup, her works act as a second skin: reactive to external aggressions and internal inflammations that one struggles to hide.
Her work is regularly featured in solo and group exhibitions (Le Nouveau Printemps in Toulouse, CAC Brétigny, Salon de Montrouge, Villa Belleville, Swiss Art Awards, Ateliers de la Ville de Marseille, Forde, Contemporary Art Center of Geneva, Villa Noailles, Villa Emerige, High Art, Ferme de la Chapelle, Wallriss, Hamlet Zurich, Art:Concept, Artgenève, Museum of Fine Arts of Lausanne…). In parallel to her artistic practice, she has co-directed the independent magazine Klima since 2018. Dedicated to the intersection of contemporary artistic creation, academic research, social sciences, politics, and activist knowledge, the magazine also develops through launches, study days, literary salons, exhibitions, and fairs (Voiture 14, Artorama Fair in Marseille, Octobre Numérique in Arles, Paris Internationale Fair, Salon de Normandy in Paris, Liste in Basel, Art Geneva Fair, Offprint Paris/London, The Salon Nada & The Community in Paris, Forde Geneva…).
ECAL Resident at La Becque from October 2020 to January 2021
Danielle Lessovitz, screenwriter and film director based in Brooklyn (New York), has been invited to teach in the Cinema department of ECAL for the fall semester 2020-2021. She will simultaneously work on her future film projects. Her practice varies between filmmaking and artistic or video installations. Her projects typically focus on marginalized communities and she often stars non-professional actors.
Nabil Ayouch est l’un des plus importants cinéastes de sa génération. Son premier long-métrage, «Mektoub», devient en 1997 le premier film à représenter le Maroc aux Oscars. «Ali Zaoua, Prince de la rue» (2000), «Much Loved» (2016) et «Razzia » (2018) connaissent également une brillante carrière internationale. Nabil Ayouch est également à l’origine de la Coalition marocaine pour la diversité culturelle (2003) et de Meda Films Development (2006) qui aide les producteur·trices et scénaristes du sud de la Méditerranée.
ECAL Resident at La Becque, fall semester 2021
Natsuko Uchino is an interdisciplinary artist living in south of France. Born in Japan in 1983, she graduated from the Cooper Union, New York in 2007 and from the CCA Kitakyushu research program, Japan in 2012. Uchino’s practice, defined by experiences in agriculture and crafts, relates art to ecology, food, and conviviality through the use of ceramics. Her work takes the form of installations, films, and performances combining the multiple materialities of sculpture, functional objects, and living matter. She was a guest lecturer for the MA in Fine Arts at ECAL with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy.
EXECAL Artist-in-Residence at La Becque August 31 – September 25
Benjamin Fanni was born in 1985 into a family of set designers and traveling circus performers. He graduated from the Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2009 and from Ecal in 2022. In 2009, he founded Studio Johnny Brecht, dedicated to interior design and set design for the performing arts, fashion and cinema. At the same time, over the past 10 years, he has developed a contemporary art practice that has resulted in several solo and group exhibitions in France (GAM gallery, Hôtel Occidental, Poush), Belgium (Leaving Living Dakota) and Switzerland (Circuit Art Centre, Valentin 61). His practice combines painting, sculpture, music, writing and performance. Through a radically conceptual and poetic approach, he explores the universal figure of the ghost and seeks to dismantle the mythologies that accompany our relationship with the invisible. In 2021, as part of his Master's degree at Ecal, his work was rewarded with the Casino Barrière de Montreux Talent and Creativity Grant. In 2023, he collaborated with directors Alexandre Montin and Maxine Reys to create Amazing Journey, a participatory sound ballad on the theme of ghosts and healing. The performance will be shown successively at the Festival du Belluard in 2024 and at the Castrum in 2025 (Switzerland). Benjamin Fanni lives and works in Paris and Lausanne.
Directeur artistique
NICOLAS POILLOT (B. 1978) IS A FREELANCE ART DIRECTOR AND CREATIVE CONSULTANT.
AFTER WORKING FOR 8 YEARS IN ADVERTISING AGENCIES AS AN ART DIRECTOR, FOR THE HAVAS GROUP, HE JOINED VICE MAGAZINE (FRANCE) IN 2010 AS THE PHOTO EDITOR.
IN 2012, NICOLAS CO-FOUNDED ÉTUDES, A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FASHION LABEL, PUBLISHING HOUSE, AND CREATIVE AGENCY WHERE HE OVERSAW THE BRAND'S VISUAL CONTENT, AS WELL AS THE PUBLISHING HOUSE.
AS MUCH AS HE LOVES SUPERVISING PHOTO SHOOTS AND TAKING A STEP BACK BEHIND THE CAMERA, NICOLAS IS ALSO A KEEN PHOTOGRAPHER. HIS AESTHETIC OSCILLATES BETWEEN DOCUMENTARY AND FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY, STAYING IN LINE WITH HIS ART DIRECTION PRACTICE.
ECAL resident at La Becque - Spring semester 2023
As a partners at Perron–Roettinger, designer Brian Roettinger has worked on creative projects with some of the world’s biggest brands and musicians. Roettinger’s work is an uncanny union of punk ideology with a conceptually driven mode of modernist design. He frequently employs architectural strategies such as repetition and structure, while subverting this sense of order by manipulating the production process in unexpected or “wrong” ways (think pulling the sheet out of the printer before it is done). He continues to work with a wide variety of artists and brands taking an holistic approach to the design process from idea to completion. His work is diverse spanning album packaging, publications, branding, campaigns, and product design. He has been nominated for numerous awards included three Art Direction Grammy’s for album packaging.
ECAL Resident at La Becque, fall semester 2023
Born in 1978, Alejo Moguillansky is an Argentinian director, producer, screenwriter and editor whose films have been shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlinale, the Locarno Film Festival and the Viennale, among others, and have been the subject of numerous retrospectives. Co-founder of the production company El Pampero Cine and programmer for the VECINE festival, Moguillansky also teaches cinema at the Universidad del Cine and the Universidad Di Tella in Buenos Aires, where he is also a member of the Revista de Cine.
Alejo Moguillansky’s teaching semester at the Cinema Department of the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) will include a workshop on the process of directorial research, as a generator of new possible forms for cinematographic creation.
Claire FitzGerald is an Anglo-Swiss art historian and curator. Her PhD thesis (University of Warwick, 2012-16) addressed the reinsertion, within art history, of artistic practices by women artists of the Birmingham School of Arts & Crafts. Since entering the museum field in 2016, she has notably worked as a curator for the Government Art Collection (GAC) in London (2018-21). In 2023, she joined the jury for the City of Geneva’s Berthoud, Lissingol-Chevalier and Galland bursaries. She was nominated head curator of the Ariana Museum, Geneva, in March 2024.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Charles Engman is an artist, photographer, educator, and creative director for the sustainable fashion brand Collina Strada. His multidisciplinary practice examines the social and emotional dimensions of imagery and hyper-visibility in contemporary culture, with a focus on the body as a site of mediation between the self and otherness.
Engman’s recent work integrates generative AI, positioning him at the forefront of exploring how technology shapes and transforms the visual and emotional dynamics of contemporary life. His use of AI questions how disembodied technologies mediate representations of the body, visual identity, and cultural production, offering a critical insight into the evolving relationships between labor, capital, and creativity.
Engman is the author of three books: MOM (2020), a long-term collaborative project with his mother that explores representation and intimacy; Hello Chaos: A Love Story – The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen (2024), a genre-defying critical theory book examining contemporary visual culture; and Cursed (2024), an artist monograph entirely created with generative AI.
Alongside his creative projects, Engman works as a commercial image maker, primarily in the fashion industry, using this practice to research, explore, and engage with the role of advertising in shaping social space and contemporary notions of the self. For his residency at La Becque, he will deepen these themes by developing a new body of work that reflects his ongoing research into image-making, the body, and the economies of visibility.
Jazmín López (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a filmmaker and visual artist. She has participated twice in the Whitney Independent Study Program (Whitney ISP) and is represented by Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery. Her work has been shown at venues including Fondation Pernod Ricard, San Jose Museum of Art, OCAT, Tabacalera, Kadist, Istanbul Biennial, and KW Institute Berlin, as well as at major art fairs like Art Basel.
Her films have screened at festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Viennale, New Directors/New Films at MoMA and Lincoln Center, Centre Pompidou, and KW Institute Berlin. López's work has been featured in publications such as Variety and The New York Times. She also served as a juror for BAFICI 2019, FidMarseille 2023, and the Hubert Bals Fund 2025.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recently acquired her films, and she holds a faculty tenure-track position at Sarah Lawrence College.