Paradise Series — print, scenography, performance — 2019
Paradise Series is an installation with movable, easy to set up elements and specifically designed tools, activated during a performance. In becoming the director of a collective fantasy, I enable myself to escape my mundane daily life.
The dream of a life better than the one we know is an essential part of human nature. Paradise is an omnipresent timeless figure expressing a yearning for that which is absent or desired. Today, in our modern western society, Paradise has become a commodity on the tourist market, a highly controlled construction that responds to the needs of Western tourists to transcend the limits of daily life. Escapism is produced and sold in an easy accessible form: a getaway to an exotic remote island. However, it is an artificial construction that ignores the local reality of these destinations and the imagined experience can never be reached, because it doesn't exist outside the imagination.
Photography by Baptiste Coulon and Raphaelle Mueller
The dream of a life better than the one we know is an essential part of human nature. Paradise is an omnipresent timeless figure expressing a yearning for that which is absent or desired. Today, in our modern western society, Paradise has become a commodity on the tourist market, a highly controlled construction that responds to the needs of Western tourists to transcend the limits of daily life. Escapism is produced and sold in an easy accessible form: a getaway to an exotic remote island. However, it is an artificial construction that ignores the local reality of these destinations and the imagined experience can never be reached, because it doesn't exist outside the imagination.
Photography by Baptiste Coulon and Raphaelle Mueller
Faire -> extérieur — collages, flag, mixed media — 2020
While in quarantine for covid-19 in Lausanne, I sent motivating signs to the outside. At a time when we are all connected throught the world wide web, I explored pretechnological ways to send signs over long distances. I reinterpretated the messagse in a bottle, the quarantine signal flag and the semaphore telegraph.
With the support of Atelier Téméraire, during an online workshop organised by Le Signe, Chaumont
Hugo d'Alesi's Maréorama — research, publication — 2020
For the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, the French graphic designer Hugo d’Alesi staged a voyage on a steamship that crossed the Mediterranean Sea from the French port of Villefranche to Constantinople, the capital of the Orient. By both recapturing the voyage as an active passenger aboard the Maréorama and deconstructing the Maréorama in relation to its historical and socio-economical context, this research aims to analyse Hugo d’Alesi’s immersive multi-sensorial spectacle, which combined commercial mass culture with the political agenda of the Third French Republic. It demonstrates how the voyage on the Maréorama was strongly embedded in the stereotypical Western constructed representations of the Mediterranean region at that time. These representations exposed the imbalance of power between the Western and Eastern poles of the Mediterranean basin and the authentic and sensual Orient as the supposed contrasting pole of the industrialised West.
Master Thesis written in 2019 under the tutorship of Thierry Chancogne
Master Thesis written in 2019 under the tutorship of Thierry Chancogne
→ article in FORUM+, journal for research and the arts
Andrea Adberhalden — publication — 2019
Publication design for the Swiss fashion designer Andrea Abderhalden, documenting her diploma project.