Night opening of the three solo exhibitions.
Exhibition. As part of its reopening season after four years of renovations to its spaces, the Centre culturel suisse invites audiences to discover three solo exhibitions by major women artists from the Swiss scene and from different generations: Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah presents "no flowers": exploring the relationship between manual photographic printing, AI, and visual distortions, "no flowers" reflects on mourning, absence, and the violence of medical institutions. Ingeborg Lüscher presents "Flammes": tracing the artist’s pioneering practice since the 1970s, the exhibition summons the creative and unruly force of fire, from conflagration to ashes. Mai-Thu Perret presents "Othermothers": composing a cosmic space populated by powerful, luminous goddesses, the exhibition imagines new collective and emancipatory mythologies. Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, "no flowers" The first solo exhibition in France by Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah (born in 1990, lives and works in Zurich), "no flowers" reflects on absence, mourning, and the violence inherent in medical and technological systems. Analog photographs of bouquets of dried flowers form the material basis of the project. In 2022, some were processed by a promptless image-generating system, producing visual mutations that were then transcribed onto negatives and printed in the darkroom. They appear alongside fragments from the medical history of the artist’s father and clinical observations written by his last doctor in Accra. The repetition of flowers, sometimes intact, sometimes altered, surrounds the figure of the father as a posthumous gesture: not a conclusion, but a presence. Between disorientation, perseverance, and attentiveness, "no flowers" creates a space of resistance to disappearance through the material presence of the image. Ingeborg Lüscher, "Flammes" From sulfur to ash, from embers to curls of smoke, "Flammes" explores the vitality of fire and its creative, unruly power. Tracing the practice of Ingeborg Lüscher (born in 1936 in Germany, lives and works in Tessin), the exhibition reveals the artist’s relationship to conflagration, developed from her earliest experiments to the present day. Ingeborg Lüscher began a sculptural, pictorial, and performative investigation in the late 1960s that has remained central to her work ever since. She also developed a unique photographic practice, documenting those close to her, her encounters, and the landscapes she crossed on her travels and in her daily life. From 1975 onward, the artist also created conceptual and autobiographical works around chance, love, and dreams. "Flammes" explores the ardor of a rich artistic career nourished by an ongoing quest for transformation, a deep interest in matter, bodies, and cyclical processes from destruction to renewal, from absence to rebirth. Mai-Thu Perret, "Othermothers" Since the late 1990s, Mai-Thu Perret (born in 1976, lives and works in Genève) has developed a sculptural and theoretical practice, intertwining historical and cultural references, alternative feminist narratives, and technical know-how. The artist’s first institutional exhibition in Paris, "Othermothers" transports us into a cosmic space-time. A matrix-like universe populated by powerful deities and mischievous creatures, the exhibition summons a chimerical history of representation, introducing a new genealogy of goddesses. Moving from sound to ceramics, from bronze to neon, from tapestry to blown glass, the artist hybridizes materials and mythologies. With a perspective that is both critical and spiritual, "Othermothers" evokes new dissident cosmogonies and the possibility of a mutant and sororal contemporary narrative. Curated by Claire Hoffmann and Tadeo Kohan.
Source: paris.fr — photo: © Tristan Savoy