Artists: Irene Abello, Mar Serinyà Gou, Flavien Durand

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Languille is delighted to welcome artists Madison Bycroft, Camille Douville, Charles-Arthur Feuvrier, Sergio Monje, Shane Lynam & Lukas Meir for a new group show. They invite us to keep an eye on our bathing and search the sand for forgotten esteem.

Unpack the monuments and dust off the beaches! Bring down the ice falls! Give way!

They’re arriving in droves: the mass of tourists from other parts of the world are putting down their sandals on the new must-see sites. It will be our pleasure to welcome them graciously, build the perfect backdrops and offer the unusual experiences that will make their excursion unforgettable: they will grace us with a starry eye.

Holidaymakers, come and fill our seas and smooth our mountains!

Travel may be human in nature, but its industrial deployment is a recipe for imbalance. In winter, in summer, in any off-season, the environment tumbles under the weight of an over-consumption economy. The social fabric frays and living things are eroded, taking with them the tranquillity of the local population. Yet this phenomenon of affluence and sudden encounters between cultures is a source of inexhaustible fascination for people from elsewhere.

At the end of his holidays, he’s off again, plastic souvenirs in his pockets, imported like himself, magnetised to the next exotic curiosity. A few more trinkets in his collection.

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Artists: Núria Güell & Éfren Álvarez

It is here by day, there by night, beyond physical laws: it dictates its time, it ingests the living, it mechanises our souls.
Capitaclysm, will you survive our dodges?

While the socio-economic-political-military system weighs heavily on our consciousness, it is through imagination and feinting that each individual finds the possibility of extricating himself from this organised violence.

Slip a pebble into a filthy shoe and halt the march of the powerful.

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Artists : Cécile Tonizzo, Rebecca Bouffigny, Jérémie Dauliac, Lucille Jallot, Thomas Teurlai, Louise Guerraud, Robin Martino

Widowed machines, stripped of their drivers, dumped on wastelands by purgatory jaws, they rust in a wreck’s tower of compacted silence. With the roar of the combustion engine crystallised in the rear-view mirror, he coughs: he is promised a smoky start. To survive in a deadly, constantly changing world, the technical object has to be purified. Even if it still smells of its first journeys.

The revolution has already passed: in the ephemeral wake of exhaust pipes, the greatest constructions of the human adventure are on their way. The roads swirl under the tyres and form an infinite network that spreads out over the conquered surface of the earth. Blessed are the licensed globetrotters who have been allowed to drive in this controlled, deserted and confused immensity.

The car is a kinetic excrescence that transforms our physical and social relationship to space-time. It’s like the travelling hut of a huddled family or the nocturnal vessel of a rescued troupe. A car for every soul.

My car is my house in motion, a home rocketing at 30 m/s on a hostile runway. The glove box contains an intimate treasure trove and the dashboard features a collection of trinkets from the same family of familiar and beloved objects. At full speed or asleep in a car park, the body is a jewel that you can tune to your image, inside and out, from the organs to the skin.

With the window down to the world, neutral. Clutch, accelerate.

And if it takes you out of a bend, you’ll be driving the most beautiful sarcophagus.

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Artists : Coralie Simmet, Enzo Bosse, Clara Chrétien & Adrien Madinier, Sacha Boccara, Azucena Momo & Anissa Zerrouki, and the association [vi.vid] look forward to meeting you on this occasion to imagine together the future of the mountain.

La montagne infinie is an artistic laboratory that brings together 7 selected artists to propose multiple visions of the mountain of the future. The results of their summer research will be presented free of charge at the Villard-Reymond church. These works juxtapose visual and plastic creations and live performances.

Col à col, a walk performed by and with Azu Momo & Anissa Zerrouki

“Col à col is a participatory walk based on the idea of sharing and environmental issues in the mountains. What do we experience on mountain paths?

Nowadays, most of us live in urban areas and use the trails for leisure or sport, intermittently and seasonally. We’ll be walking towards the mountains, without climbing, but we’ll be moving towards encounters, just like the paths that used to link the villages. Inspired by the figure of the old-time peddler and mobile poetry, we’ll be activating sensitive and playful zones around the ontological entity of the mountain.

By collecting wishes for future paths, we will form a community of alliance with the Oisans.

Faced with the challenge of climate change, Col à col is experimenting with trails as a source of environmental awareness. In an area where the imagination of exploits and conquests of summits dominates, we propose the art of gentle slowness. Because “active passivity can become a prodigious force of symbolic resistance and as such be at the centre of both ethics and politics” Anne Dufourmantelle, Puissance de la douceur (The Power of Gentleness).

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Created by Maxime Houot
Produced by Collectif Coin
Commissioned by [vi.vid]

The work is currently being created under the provisional title SANS TITRE. This choice underlines the evolution and flexibility of this creative process.

The future title will be determined once the work has taken shape and revealed all its substance. The fruit of in situ research, this work fuses moving machines, sound and light to create a singular immersive experience.

The machines, veritable kinetic sculptures, orchestrate a hypnotic dance in dialogue with Languille’s space. Beams of light create shadows and reflections that constantly metamorphose the environment, while the sounds create a dynamic sonic canvas that evolves with the installation.

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With Céline Marin, Pietro Gardoni, Delphine Renault, Valère Costes, Louise Le Pape, Harald Hund, Ece Bal

Hundreds of millions of years ago, life appeared on Earth, nestled in a blue cradle: water. Over the millennia that followed, this element in all its forms played an unceasing part in the birth of an extraordinary diversity of flora and fauna, modifying landscapes, metamorphosing the sky and structuring the human imagination.

In the current era of the Antropocene, water is becoming increasingly scarce, a shortage exacerbated by reckless waste and climate change. Water has been drained away in the wake of a growing number of aquatic disasters, and we hope it will wake us from our slumber.

Céline Marin, Pietro Gardoni, Delphine Renault, Valère Costes, Louise Lepape, Harald Hund and Ece Balnous take us out of our oxygen bubble to immerse us in a mystical, disturbing and dreamlike sunken universe. They bring us together at the bottom of the wave, between contemplative liquefaction and exploratory apnoea.

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Artists : Dorian Rigal Minuit, Caterina Morigi, Marguerite Piard, Lina Schlageter, Sixtine de Thé, Matthias Joulaud & Lucien Roux, Et Pourquoi Pas?

We communicate and exchange in our everyday social constructions, and this implies an action shared by several protagonists. This exhibition looks at the different forms of language we use: whether verbal, physical, symbolic or emotional, they all appeal to our senses and our ability to receive messages. At a time when everyone is expressing themselves more freely and more frequently, do we still understand each other? With works in the visual, sound, video and digital arts, the Langages exhibition offers a multidisciplinary perspective on one of the essences of our social forms.

“Language is the house in which man lives.
Godard, Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle – 1967

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Artists : Alice Charbonnel, Salomé Dugraindelorge, Clément Froidevau, Isadora Soares Belletti, Marco Facchetti, Gianluca Patrizi, Felix de Montety

‘La Montagne infinie’ is a platform that enables 7 artists from all over the Alps to get together, cross their approaches, influence each other and produce a shared reflection. Their visual and theoretical research, which we are supporting and accompanying, will culminate in a collective exhibition and publication about our future uses of mountain spaces.

On Saturday 2 September, visitors are invited to talk to the artists on site!

Educational workshops will be organised for the occasion.

It’s against this backdrop that we want to encourage people who use, protect and are protected to think together.

The exhibition and residency will take place at the Taillefer refuge on the ‘Plateau des lacs’ in the Taillefer massif (Parc national des Écrins). It’s a pristine stretch of nature, bearing witness to a geological timeframe and an ecosystem far older than human existence. The exceptional nature of the plateau, with its numerous peat bogs, lakes and wetlands, makes it a jewel to be preserved. Hence the measures taken to regulate human activity.

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[vi.vid] is delighted to invite Margot Darvogne, Marion Flament, Martha-Maria Le Bars, Randa Maroufi, Louise Mutrel, Jérôme Clément-Wilz and Pierre Gaignard to present a selection of works over a three-week period, from Saturday 1 July to Saturday 22 July, in the “Languille” room at La Bifurk.

Piled up in dialogue, the selected works together tell the story of some of the deepest breaths of nightlife. In this way, night is a moment when the totality of the exhibition shifts from the daytime to sudden partial revelations in the dark, serenely bursting forth with all their intimate strength and revealing the hidden faces of the artists, their memories and their fascinations.

Night is an everyday phenomenon, a cavity into the space of our dreams and nightmares, which we embrace here with our eyes open! The scenography was specifically designed and implemented by Quentin Touya and Simon Cristiano, curators of [vi.vid], in close collaboration with Julien Fawaz, composer of the soundtrack.

A starry blue sky hangs over the works, which it illuminates to the rhythm of atmospheric electronic music, harvesting and deploying a deep, sensory out-of-day experience, structured like a galactic sleep.

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Artists: Farid Kati, Marco Facchetti Farid Kati, Marco Facchetti and the duo Matthias Joulaud and Lucien Roux.

The residency as a first field of research invites four artists to bring together and coordinate their different practices with a view to collecting data from a defined location. They assimilate and recompose these data to offer a sensitive and narrative reading of the area they are investigating: Cornillon-en-Trièves.

The project is identified with a human encounter between the protagonists with shared interests and sensibilities. Bringing them together encourages these explorers of the territory to share and debate, particularly their points of view on the phenomena to be experienced.

Between phenomenology and exploration, both geographical and technical, the description of the territory and its ecosystem reveals unsuspected aspects; carried along by the vagaries of the weather and by chance encounters with the inhabitants in their daily lives, the exploration becomes multiple, natural, spontaneous and social.

The artists’ respective works collide, evolving at a distance along parallel lines, around a common theme: the representation of the invisible manifestations of place. Each in his own way reveals a hidden and fragmentary portrait of the landscape, which he has studied, observed, measured and cartographed.

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Production assistant for the Lemaniana exhibition.

The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève present the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021 (BIM’21), co-curated by the collaborative DIS and Centre’s director, Andrea Bellini. As one of the most interesting curatorial collectives active in the art world today, DIS has already produced exhibitions that have marked our era. BIM’21 will be no exception. This edition of BIM will be organized around the “artistic and cultural imaginary” of the New York collective and conceived as a radical “pilot season”—a collective effort to interrupt regular programming and find an exit from our human-centered, capitalist death drive.

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Production assistant for the Lemaniana exhibition.

The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève presents Lemaniana: Reflections on Other Scenes – a collective exhibition celebrating the diversity of the contemporary artistic production in the Léman region.

Resulting from a call for projects made in autumn 2020, Lemaniana proposes to look at the art produced today in the local area from a new perspective. This project aims to free itself of the artist-invitation protocol, inevitably influenced by codes and value judgements stemming from a single curatorial vision.

The call for projects was therefore based on an open conception of the territory, with the aim of bringing together artists of different background who are either temporarily or permanently linked to the cross-border region of the Lake Léman basin, irrespective of training or education.

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Trasmissione is an exhibition conceived with students of Art, Museology and Curatorial Practices at the University of Bologna and students at the Academia degli Belli Arti.

Adapted to an online format following the confinement of this year 2020.

A journey through a network of pages that make up our daily virtual landscape, social networks, online shops, listening platforms and so on.

An intergenerational transmission in a digital archive.