Das Bild im Boden (The Picture in the Floor) Das Bild im Boden is a series of over one hundred works produced between 1986 and 2015 as part of the Archives du futur project, begun in 1975 by the husband-and-wife team Chérif and Silvie…
Zénith Silvie and Chérif Defraoui began working together in 1975 on the long-term project Archives du futur, involving a range of techniques including installations, videos, and photography, among others. After Chérif’s death in 1994, Silvie Defraoui…
Conjunction XII Lynn Chadwick was a self-taught sculptor. The influence of his architecture studies before World War Two is clear in his early works, reflecting an interest in how shapes balance and integrate space. His later sculptures…
Nature morte (Still Life) After leaving school in Paris, Aimée Moreau studied art privately in the same city, devoting herself entirely to painting from the mid-1950s on. She has painted from life every day since, working to a timetable…
Stone, Notes, Tones Philippe Decrauzat has built a body of work on processes of visual and auditory perceptions that he transposes into geometric compositions combining references to abstract art and the history of science. One such work is…
4’224,92 cm2 de Degas Taus Makhacheva’s performances, installations and videos are often inspired by stories heard, imagined, or witnessed by the artist herself. She explores the grand narratives of history and art history, studying how they are constructed, what…
ED/HF The film ED/HF – Extraterritorial Durations/Harun Farocki in full – can be read as a combined portrait of Green herself and of Harun Farocki. The artist pays homage to the experimental filmmaker in a video…
We Are All Astronauts We Are All Astronauts is one of the first works Julian Charrière completed after studying with Olafur Eliasson at Berlin’s Institut für Raumexperimente in 2013. It can be read retrospectively as a premonitory abstract of…
2008 (14) (from the series L’homme blanc n’a plus de peau [The white man no longer has a skin]) At private performances in his studio, Luc Andrié, dressed only in underpants or wearing a ridiculous military cap, plays roles and recreates attitudes observed elsewhere, capturing the images with a camera. Then comes a lengthy…
Igor Jean Crotti left his literary studies at the University of Lausanne after a year to study fine art in Geneva from 1977-1979. Together with other young artists who were to make their mark on the…