| | | | | | | | | | | 2nd Session: L'Appartement - Espace Images Vevey | | | | | | | 14 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 | | | Opening: Tuesday, 14 December, 6pm
"L'Appartement - Espace Images Vevey" is the new permanent showcase for Images Vevey's activities. This art space will host around fifteen artist projects and exhibitions per year, free of charge. It will provide a link between two editions of the Images Vevey biennial and will help to keep the "Vevey ville d'images" label alive throughout the year.
This new space for contemporary photography is located in the main hall of the Vevey railway station, in the former railwaymen's apartments. It is from this historical background that it takes its name of "L'Appartement - Espace Images Vevey". The particularity of L'Appartement is that each of its rooms is assigned to a particular exhibition format. By preserving the original aspect of the building and transforming its primary function, Images Vevey aims to offer a visitor experience that reflects the surprising and convivial image of its biennial event. L'Appartement will therefore continue to host four artists' projects simultaneously and will continue to organise its exhibitions according to its four main living areas | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | No107 A woman sitting in a chair with a flower in her hand
© Sara Bastai | | | | | | RAM_2.0, 2021 | | | | 14 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No126 A table with plates of food on it
© Sara Bastai | | | | | | | To keep pace with contemporary creation, Images Vevey has joined forces with ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, to launch Images Vevey x ECAL, a new prize offering a first solo exhibition to a student completing his/her studies in photography. The first ever Images Vevey x ECAL prize has been awarded to Sara Bastai for her RAM_2.0 project involving artificial intelligence. The artist ran the hundreds of photos in her smartphone through an algorithm, which analysed the images and described what it observed. She then photographed new scenarios based on the generated captions. This created a dialogue between the artist and the machine, exploring the notion of memory through the eyes of technology. | | | | | | | | | No168 A woman is holding a cell phone to her ear
© Sara Bastai | | | | | | | Pour rester au plus près de la création contemporaine, Images Vevey lance un nouveau prix en partenariat avec l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne : Images Vevey × ECAL vise à offrir une première exposition personnelle à un·e étudiant·e terminant un cursus en photographie. Sara Bastai est la première lauréate du prix Images Vevey × ECAL. Son projet RAM_2.0 est issu de sa collaboration avec une intelligence artificielle. En soumettant les centaines de photographies contenues dans son smartphone à un algorithme, ce dernier analyse les images et décrit ce qu’il y perçoit. Bastai photographie ensuite de nouvelles mises en scène en se basant sur les légendes générées. Un dialogue entre l’artiste et la machine s’établit pour explorer la notion même de souvenir au travers du regard de la technologie. | | | | |
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| | | | | Radial Grammar (3D re-edit), 2021 © Batia Suter | | | | | | Radial Grammar (3D re-edit), 2021 | | | | 14 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Radial Grammar (3D re-edit), 2021 © Batia Suter | | | | | | | Batia Suter has been collecting books and magazines for over twenty years. Most of them are second-hand and include scientific papers, glossaries, promotional catalogues, art and history books, periodicals on the animal kingdom, and much more. These pages provide the raw material for her artistic practice, whereby she extracts, decontextualises, and correlates images to reveal them in a new light. Her extensive project Radial Grammar is showcased in an exhibition, a book, and a video. This visual montage evokes a bookshop packed with treasures and encyclopaedias. In L'Appartement, the projection evokes the giant sphere of the Chiesa Madre in the town of Gibellina, Italy. Suter designed this slide show for a monumental videomapping as part of the for the bienniale Images Gibellina 2021. The fluidity takes us on a mysterious visual journey through iconography, the formal and narrative characteristics of images. | | | | | | | | | | Radial Grammar (3D re-edit), 2021 © Batia Suter | | | | | | | Depuis plus de vingt ans, Batia Suter collectionne des imprimés scientifiques, catalogues promotionnels, lexiques, livres d’art, revues animalières et bien plus encore. Elle y puise la matière première de sa pratique artistique : des images qu’elle extrait, décontextualise et associe pour les révéler sous un jour nouveau. Son projet de grande envergure Radial Grammar se décline en exposition, en livre et en vidéo. Cet enchainement visuel évoque une ancienne librairie remplie de trésors et d’encyclopédies. Dans L’Appartement, la projection évoque la sphère géante de la Chiesa Madre de la ville de Gibellina en Italie. Suter a conçu ce diaporama pour un videomapping monumental dans le cadre de la biennale Images Gibellina 2021. Le flux nous emporte dans un voyage iconographique mystérieux, élaboré autour des caractéristiques formelles et narratives des images. | | | | |
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| | | | Aircraft: The New Anatomy, 2020
© Maxime Guyon | | | | | | Aircraft: The New Anatomy, 2020 | | | | 14 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Aircraft: The New Anatomy, 2020
© Maxime Guyon | | | | | | | From 2017 to 2020, Maxime Guyon explored the most significant aviation factories and met numerous protagonists of this impressive sector of the economy. His keen eye for detail and aesthetics is apparent in his series of photographs questioning the fascinating evolution of the aeronautical industry and the rat race for technological performance. The book entitled Aircraft: The New Anatomy published by Lars Müller in Zurich, presents a collation of his work. Complemented with an essay by Nicolas Nova, a Swiss-French researcher and anthropologist, these images serve as an evolving metaphor and launchpad for a broader reflection on human-made artefacts and the ambivalent link between nature and technology. | | | | | | | | | Aircraft: The New Anatomy, 2020
© Maxime Guyon | | | | | | | Entre 2017 et 2020, Maxime Guyon explore les plus importantes usines rattachées au domaine de l'aviation et rencontre de multiples protagonistes de cet impressionnant secteur économique. Avec une esthétique forte et une fascination pour le détail, il réalise une série photographique questionnant l’évolution fascinante de l’industrie aéronautique, tout comme la course folle à la performance technologique. Ses images sont rassemblées dans un livre intitulé Aircraft: The New Anatomy publié aux éditions Lars Müller à Zurich. Accompagnées d’un essai écrit par le chercheur et anthropologue franco-suisse Nicolas Nova, elles servent de métaphore évolutive et de point de départ pour une réflexion plus large sur les artefacts créés par l'humain et la relation ambivalente entre la nature et la technologie. | | | | |
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© Lucia Nimcova | | | | | | Animal Imago, 2013 | | | | 14 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Animal Imago, 2013
© Lucia Nimcova | | | | | | | When artist Lucia Nimcova goes on a trip, she has a penchant for photographing the animals she notices on her excursions. Sending these images of urban creatures as postcards to friends and family initiates a reflection on communication. How do we, as city creatures of the 21st century, compare to other animals? What can we learn if we really try to listen to them, collaborate with them or put ourselves in their place? Can we understand one another? This tamed, humanised fauna farcically questions our status as a "superior" species. Fifteen of the artist’s street photographs have been collated in a display specifically designed for children. | | | | | | | | | Animal Imago, 2013
© Lucia Nimcova | | | | | | | Quand l’artiste Lucia Nimcova part en voyage, elle a pour habitude de photographier les animaux rencontrés au fil de ses pérégrinations. Utilisant ces images pour envoyer des cartes postales à ses proches, une réflexion sur la communication s’amorce. Comment nous, animaux urbains du 21e siècle, nous situons nous par rapport aux autres animaux ? Que pouvons-nous apprendre si nous essayons réellement de les écouter, de collaborer avec eux ou de nous mettre à leur place ? Pouvons-nous nous comprendre ? Humanisée, cette faune domestiquée remet en question, avec humour, notre statut d’espèce « supérieure ». Quinze de ses photographies de rue sont rassemblées dans un accrochage conçu spécialement pour les enfants. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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