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Yann Difford – Is it a mirage or an oasis?

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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.“

Basil Pérot – As Long as You Wait

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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.

Camille Spiller – Smooth Space

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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.»

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

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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.»

Marvin Merkel – Kuh Vache Mucca

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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?»

Yolane Rais – Nagual

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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.»

Ludivine Keller – Girovago sulla risacca cercandoti

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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.»

Julie Corday – De taille d'une mandarine

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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

Florian Hilt – New Order

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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

Angèle Marignac-Serra – Isula Anima

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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.»

Lisa Mazenauer – Copper Tales

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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.

Steven Rüthy – Insight

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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.»

Clara Roumégoux – Territoires du geste

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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.

Justine Willa – Where Are the Exits up There?

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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.»

Alizée Quinche – They Blossom at Night

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Alizée Quinche – They Blossom at Night

by Alizée Quinche

« They Blossom at Night explores the vision of a shifting biotechnological intimacy, the opening to an altered state of consciousness towards an undefined space, a moment in time when the connection between bodies becomes fluid(s), a form of sexuality where each partner, each relationship, transforms and helps beings evolve through sharing and emancipation. Featuring an immersive video-sound installation, the project appropriates the symbolic force of procreation. It explores the materiality of non-reproductive sexuality by developing a microbiological creature that represents the transmissions of polyamorous intimacy. The work expresses the cohesion between the organicity of relationships and a form of technology that allows for different social liberations, in reference to medically assisted procreation.»

Sarah Koeke – Can We Always Be This Close

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Sarah Koeke – Can We Always Be This Close

by Sarah Koeke

« Over the past ten years, thanks to video streaming sites, K-Pop has become a global phenomenon, completely reshaping the relationship between the music industry and the image. K-pop stars, also known as idols, have become symbols of globalisation and the cultural power of South Korea and are asserting themselves as role models for many young people in the West. Can We Always Be This Close paints a complex picture of the links between image, identity, masculinity and fan culture. Through their social networks, young fans construct their identity online. The content produced seems superficial and narcissistic, but highlights essential topics such as gender normativity, social relationships or ethnic issues.»

David Benito Py – Pigeons, They Make Up the Beehive

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David Benito Py – Pigeons, They Make Up the Beehive

by David Benito Py

« Every city is the unique work of its inhabitants and, paradoxically, it concerns every one of them in a different way. In my opinion, in order to solve the apparent contradiction between intimacy and urbanity, the appropriation of space, both material and mental, is necessary. Only then can urban wandering be experienced as a real sensory experience. Through this installation, I invite visitors to live my personal experience of space, horizontal and vertical, contemplative and obsessive. As Jean-Christophe Bailly put it, “Each city has its own slang and has, within itself, a clandestine city that pierces it in scattered meshes whose bare thread the stroller puts back together.”»

Emeline Courcier – Sous les Cendres du Mekong

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Emeline Courcier – Sous les Cendres du Mekong

by Emeline Courcier

« Sous les cendres du Mekong is a film that questions the coexistence of opposed traditions and cultures, life and death, and the confrontation between history and individual stories. Against the backdrop of the health crisis and anti-Asian racism, family ties are revealed through conversations questioning my place as a Viet Kieu daughter and my lineage. Through our beliefs in reincarnation, I project myself onto a familiar yet foreign figure: my mother’s cousin, who drowned in the Mekong, creating a link between past and present, war and peace, words and silence. It is through traumatic memory and psychological heritage that the after-effects of a war from which my family escaped reach me, taking precedence in my dreams and my mind.»

Axelle Bruniau – Leughenaer

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Axelle Bruniau – Leughenaer

by Axelle Bruniau

« Leughenaer is an autobiographical fiction about my relationship to my childhood in a particular geography and culture – Dunkirk – a city in the north of France. This film refers particularly to my non-binarity and transfemininity in a social context where carnival culture and cross-dressing are an important part of life for three months a year. The architecture of the city of Dunkirk is of particular interest to me because of the parallel I can draw with my own person. This city was 90% destroyed during World War II and was quickly rebuilt into a modern city. Deconstructing in order to reconstruct, that is how I went back to make this film.»

Antoine Martin – Via Alpina

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Antoine Martin – Via Alpina

by Antoine Martin

Swiss iconography presents the mountains under two ambivalent aspects: on the one hand, a hostile and dangerous environment, and on the other hand, an environment tamed and dominated by humankind. The interesting aspect of this project is that it transposes certain characteristic images from this iconography and leads viewers to question the boundary between stereotypes and the reality in which they live. It also questions the use of mountains as an «artefact» conveyed by commercial clichés. Viewers are led to get involved physically with the image by immersing themselves in the relief of this alpine imaginary, forced to observe the paradox of its symbolic and monumental reduction through commercial imagery.

Jenna Callewaert – Her and I

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Jenna Callewaert – Her and I

by Jenna Callewaert

« What do you do when you miss everything? How do you avoid being haunted by the place you left? A painful absence mixed with hope, nostalgia that associates past and future, like a paradox. Above all, this project is a quest: that of finding a part of myself in a country where I once lived, and whose only memories I had were of colours, smells and sensations. Throughout my journey, I sought to explore and confront these memories built on a form of absence. Between dismay and delight, I often asked myself the question of the integrity of these images. Were these memories real or pure fabrications of the mind? I thus designed this book with the aim of capturing a process of transformation where each image, composed of sepia, shadows and ochre, carries in its flesh the testimonies of the past and illustrates that nothing ever dies.»

Sofia Papaefthymiou – Το Ρόδι – The Pomegranate

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Sofia Papaefthymiou – Το Ρόδι – The Pomegranate

by Sofia Papaefthymiou

« Being half-Cypriot half-Swiss, I somehow felt the need to understand my relationship to the territory, borders, exile and my shared origins. Το Ρόδι–The Pomegranate is a short film that has become a tool for exploration and deconstruction, bringing the geopolitical conflicts of my country up to the level of my own conflicts. This project is also a space where I can dream freely of other places, my own island – the reflections of my desires. Unable to reach this homeland, I try to grasp what I do not have, to reproduce the sensations that I experienced there. I collect archives, I commission images. I bring my female body, which I appropriate and re-appropriate through various representations, back to its origin, to find my place and speak up again.»

Caroline Perrenoud – Entre-deux, il n'y a pas rien

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Caroline Perrenoud – Entre-deux, il n'y a pas rien

by Caroline Perrenoud

There is a space between what we call reality and virtual reality, which by definition is unreal. In this in-between space, full of possibilities, identities are created and emancipated. Sexualities are discovered and avatars are roles that we choose to embody. These roles are manifold and represent the multiplicity of the self. Women in their plurality, dissidents, the in-between space enables us to show ourselves, to observe each other, to make ourselves powerful and claim our place and freedom. Through self-sexualisation, the monetisation of the self-image, sexual or romantic relationships, the avatars evolve seamlessly and transform. They decide, take over the space and meet in an immersive video installation.

Lara Ziörjen – No Hard Feelings

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Lara Ziörjen – No Hard Feelings

by Lara Ziörjen

No Hard Feelings is a personal exploration of the world we live in. Through these images, a powerful vision of our culture emerges – who are we, how do we consume and ultimately, where are we headed? The book shows an abundant world in which fast fashion, artificial food and useless objects accumulate. An important aspect of this work is the combination of images and the work on detail, approaching an object, analysing and understanding it. It addresses the absurdity and banality of everyday life. The images were all taken with a mobile phone, an essential tool that complements my conceptual.

Marie Noury – Nous voir ensemble

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Marie Noury – Nous voir ensemble

by Marie Noury

« What possible stories can twenty-four by six centimetres trigger? A photography that I hold dear generates a collective conversation. Nous voir ensemble takes the form of an investigation into a familiar and founding archive where words and visions meet. From this vernacular photography, voices narrate, project, and imagine. What story, memory and presence do these shots, on and off-screen, generate? How do words bring back to life a picture that has been worn out over time by the viewer’s gaze ?»

Norida Ho – JeSuisDiversité

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Norida Ho – JeSuisDiversité

by Norida Ho

JeSuisDiversité is a fictitious campaign led by a French suburban city to improve the image of a neighbourhood based on diversity only. Using corporate communication techniques, diversity becomes an affordable and attractive idea. JeSuisDiversité deals with the issue of the representation of French suburbs and the depoliticisation of public policies in favour of communication. Diversity is a marketing asset used to mask a semblance of political commitment.

Pavo Marinovic – Marble Ass

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Pavo Marinovic – Marble Ass

by Pavo Marinovic

Marble Ass contributes to photographic research on how masculinities are constructed in post-conflict societies and addresses the existing archetype in the former Yugoslavia, nowadays the Balkans.  The installation reveals not only the role of a territory in political transition but also its history, heritage and inter-generational transmission.

Mindaugas Matulis – Modern House and Green Garden

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Mindaugas Matulis – Modern House and Green Garden

by Mindaugas Matulis

The project is based on the aimless wandering of Mendog, a fictitious artist/businessman who navigates through a transitional period, elaborating traumas of the past and creating new wounds as he pursues his dreams of suburban happiness.  It is set in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. At that time freedom, coupled with the ideological influence of the West, drove people to reshape their lives. After the fall of the authoritarian regime, people were allowed to dream again and some made their dreams come true.

Alexandra Dautel – May You Continue to Blossom

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Alexandra Dautel – May You Continue to Blossom

by Alexandra Dautel

« Is it possible to live together as equals far from the known models of our societies? My investigation into a community in Israel, a kibbutz, lies at the crossroads between utopia and dystopia. This was in fact a school for “self-learning”. Totally isolated, talking about the past there was forbidden. However, utopia hides many secrets, or at least was hiding many. This group of friends who left Jerusalem to settle in the Negev desert followed a man, “a guru, leader, servant, older brother, teacher, friend, lover…”. It is still difficult at this time to define his exact role.»

Anouk Maupu – Sain uu ?

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Anouk Maupu – Sain uu ?

by Anouk Maupu

Nomingerel, Egshiglen, Bayarjavkhlan, Oyun-Erdene and Enkhmaa are between 13 and 18 years old and live in Khatgal, a village in northern Mongolia. For several months, they have filmed their daily lives with their smartphones, delivering a portrait of a changing country through their teenage eyes. This film, made remotely, addresses our relationship to documentary practice, the dematerialisation of human relations, collective work and the circulation of images.

Sarah Coppet – A un autre soleil

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Sarah Coppet – A un autre soleil

by Sarah Coppet

A un autre soleil addresses reflections on the transmission of land and stories, and on the relationship between France and the West Indies.  The film relates a family story that takes place in the south of Martinique: the sale by one of the heirs of a major piece of land that leads to the family home being lost. Gathered in a stark environment in France, the West Indian characters take hold of this story and seek to tell it.

Noé Cotter – Meanderings in the Scraps of Time

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Noé Cotter – Meanderings in the Scraps of Time

by Noé Cotter

« This work addresses the possible collapse of our civilisation as well as the limits of human temporality compared to the cosmos.  In the footsteps of my childhood in the Canton of Neuchâtel, this project is based on the explorations of two sites: the first in the submerged pile-dwelling remains of a civilisation of the Bronze Age; the second in the eroded gorges of a local river, the Areuse.  The approach is in a way similar to that of an archaeologist, but it is fuelled by a romantic impulse, that of a certain quest for the sublime.»

Gohan Keller – A Travers les Autres

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Gohan Keller – A Travers les Autres

by Gohan Keller

« My research A Travers les Autres focuses on my identity from the outside. In the form of a collaborative self-portrait, I examine the hybrid, manifold and fluid nature of identity.  Through the words of my loved ones, I explore various representations and perceptions of my persona in order to better understand and redefine myself.  This diversity of points of view also addresses the duality between subjectivity and objectivity in any attempt at definition.»

Santiago Martinez – No More Excuses

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Santiago Martinez – No More Excuses

by Santiago Martinez

« Society is governed by grand designs, rules, codes and models of success. Our way of life is always more intense, more productive, more material. And this success would depend on the conquest and the ownership of outward signs of appearance.  I build on a mythical vision of the United States, through the undermining of symbols, like perverted stereotypes.  Between enchantment and disenchantment, I take a look that is both critical and fascinated by these cultural archetypes.»

Matthieu Croizier – Everything Goes Dark a Little Further Down

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Matthieu Croizier – Everything Goes Dark a Little Further Down

by Matthieu Croizier

« From freak shows to the invention of hysteria in the 19th century, the figure of the monster is created through images. The staging of abnormality reinforces the norm to which it is opposed. By means of self-representation, I seek to create a monstrosity out of the banal, turning my body into malleable and fragmented material. With reference to scientific and anatomical iconography, I seek to deconstruct normative representations of the body in order to construct new ones. To what extent does a body remain a body and how can it free itself from the norms that constrain it?»

Tara Ulmann – Chère Liberté, éloge au Pardon

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Tara Ulmann – Chère Liberté, éloge au Pardon

by Tara Ulmann

« Chère Liberté is the story of a young girl whose past and cultural heritage have been kept from her, of a child-turned-woman through the prism of her culture. It is a subjective interpretation of a contemporary odalisque, growing up inhabited by transgenerational traits. It is an elevation of the soul far from the body, a long and tortuous journey from the roots to the unknown. It is a bedroom turned into a stage for my living personas. “Dear Freedom” is praise to all, a performance of pain and the foundation of body psychotherapy as a tool for forgiveness.»

Maxime Pouillot – Model

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Maxime Pouillot – Model

by Maxime Pouillot

« We live in a time where the boundary between the artificial and the real is blurred, a time where a simple financial transaction has given me ownership of the rights to the image of a human being.  Rather than humankind, this project focuses on artificial shapes by representing textures and surfaces, the (re)construction of images and surfaces manipulated, objectified and idealised to the extreme by the utopia of contemporary marketing.  It features a fixed space, deprived of its meaning, where the physicality of timeless and dematerialised objects becomes the endlessly malleable surface of contemporary mimesis.»

Charlotte Favre – Poetics of Space

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Charlotte Favre – Poetics of Space

by Charlotte Favre

« The perception of our environment is built on patterns that aim to define the elements that surround us. I am fascinated by this and my approach therefore aims to deconstruct their representation by diverting their usefulness and the way in which they are arranged. It oscillates between the interpretation of domestic space and the construction of mental space.»

Margot Sparkes – At Night There Is No Sun

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Margot Sparkes – At Night There Is No Sun

by Margot Sparkes

« Through various forms of projection, At Night There Is No Sun takes us into an almost enclosed mise-en-scene that reveals the contradictory emotions of a character stifled by the grip of a seemingly smooth and rectilinear urban environment. The fantasy of a promising lifestyle clashes with the emptiness of everyday life – a fake environment in which uncertainty, injunctions, detachment and pretence are interwoven.»

Mina Albespy – Hollow Stones

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Mina Albespy – Hollow Stones

by Mina Albespy

Empty and silent, Zen gardens invite visitors to become involved in states of mental transition in which scale, content and meaning evolve, giving them a mysterious poetic quality. In this globalised world of instant gratification, we are detached from the natural order of things. « Through this graduation work I wish to open a reflection on time, space and emptiness on the scale of the Japanese garden which proves that it is possible to cultivate a place of discovery where we can invent something new for ourselves, and therefore for the world.»

Maëwenn Bourcelot – Les éternels éphémères

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Maëwenn Bourcelot – Les éternels éphémères

by Maëwenn Bourcelot

«Myriads of small winged creatures have silently disappeared in the past twenty-seven years. In the blink of an eye, the decline of pollinators seems to herald the gloomy nightmare of a devastated biosphere. Les éternels éphémères is a photographic essay, a subjective investigation that seeks to understand the complex causes that contribute to colony collapse disorder. This quest leads me to meet various actors who in their endeavour to preserve nature’s balance, attest to the profound vulnerability of mankind in the face of this tragedy.»

Faustine Ardaine – Marine / חיל הים.

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Faustine Ardaine – Marine / חיל הים.

by Faustine Ardaine

« Families embrace a set of beliefs and moral principles, including the personal history and various experiences that family members have had. This video addresses the notion of the unspoken and the feelings towards my sister who has decided to make a new life choice.»

Gaël Corboz – Hyper Eden

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Gaël Corboz – Hyper Eden

by Gaël Corboz

Hyper Eden evokes the creation of our world through the theory of simulation. Our world relies on beliefs, but also fundamental questions, e.g. « who are we? where do we come from?». Using aesthetics borrowed from video games, Hyper Eden suggests that the mechanisms of our reality are similar to those created digitally by humans.

Laurent Fiorentino – Camera Apocrifa

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Laurent Fiorentino – Camera Apocrifa

by Laurent Fiorentino

« In a room that is the alcove, the temple and the prison of my sexuality, the drama of castration unfolds, caused by the obligation to be a normal, penetrating and hard man. The powerlessness to conform to the male stereotype crushes my individual identity, forcing a constant struggle between desire and prohibition.  With a twisted gaze, yielding to a scopic impulse, I conduct obsessive research on sexuality that takes the form of a ritual. Creating apocryphal and sexual ex-votos, I seek to fix imprints in plaster and ceramics as on photosensitive surfaces.»

Achille Laplante – Le Brun – Pierre

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Achille Laplante – Le Brun – Pierre

by Achille Laplante – Le Brun

« My video is based on the observation of a deep and friendly relationship between two boys. Since our first encounter, I have observed, admired and used it as an example. A winemaker’s son, the idea of transmission is both a burden and a source of frustration for Pierre. Everything takes place on his freestyle motocross field, the embodiment of his private garden in his eyes.»

Valentin Woeffray – Doing God's Work with Other People's Money

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Valentin Woeffray – Doing God's Work with Other People's Money

by Valentin Woeffray

« We are being watched, either by the State or by tech companies managed or owned by a very few. With our money, in a system where they are the ones setting the rules, they watch us, making sure we behave how we are supposed to and spend the way they intend us to. The police State ensures that no grain of sand ends up in the gears, that we can still consume frantically in a way that will eventually lead to our demise. And when that happens, the same elite will leave for space and colonise new planets, without us.»

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