Alfatih (CH, 1995)
Residency period: May-June 2025
Over the past few years, alfatih (lives and works in Switzerland) has presented interactive, installative, and video works in venues and institutions such as Circuit, Lausanne; Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano; Sentiment, Zurich; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle; Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva; Swiss Institute, New York; Kora Arts Center, Castrignano; Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg.
During his three-month residency at La Becque, alfatih will develop a moving image research project that focuses on the current disillusionment with technocratic governance. The work views this sentiment against the backdrop of the critique of rationalism in 18th century Romanticism. The project seeks to explore how contemporary techno-optimism mirrors, in some respects, the Enlightenment’s promise of reason and progress, once challenged by emotions, irrationality, and the sublime. This work builds upon switzerland, presented at MASI Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana in Lugano in December 2024.
alfatih, La Becque, 2025, photo Aurélien Haslebacher