Daphne Ahlers, Olga Balema, Camille Blatrix, Gina Fischli, Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Marie Gyger, Lewis Hammond, Nora Kapfer, Tristan Lavoyer, Claudia Lemke, Dominic Michel, Sveta Mordovskaya, Ser Serpas
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl
A House is not a Home / A Home is not a House is a double exhibition that addresses the binary logic of identification and identity. The exhibition presents the works of thirteen artists who have in common a relation to spatiality. They share an intuition that links architecture to embodiment. Occupying a certain space, the works do not take their place for granted. They contest the course that leads them from their conception to their reception. Though the works address a visitor’s attention, they also refuse to be subjected to a normative interpretation.
Oscillating between the public house of art and the private home of the self, the artworks befall one realm with the other. They refer more or less sincerely to domestication, to the decorative, to classical artistic mediums, and to craftsmanship. Often made by the hand of the artist, their materiality emanates a certain charme but, perversely, also alludes to the precarity of artistic production.
Claudia Lemke, It’s the Sun that Keeps us Changing, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Camille Blatrix, Untitled, 2018. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl
Sveta Mordovskaya, Night and Now (Rats are Angels), 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Nora Kapfer, Untitled (Wand), 2017. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Gina Fischli, Capitol House, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Love, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Laugh, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Live, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Lewis Hammond, Putting Myself Back Together II, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Olga Balema, Brain Damage, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Lewis Hammond, Study for a Tomb (This Godforsaken Isle), 2018. Photo: Guillaume Python
A House is not a Home, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Marie Gyger, Easy jet, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Tristan Lavoyer, Kuka Seevaratnam, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python
Tristan Lavoyer, Kuka Seevaratnam, 2019. Photo: Guillaume Python