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 the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; the Swiss Institute, New York; Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich; the Kora Arts Center, Castrignano; the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg; Haus der Elektronische Kunst, Basel, and Circuit, Lausanne.
During his three-month residency at La Becque, Alfatih will develop The Revolution Will Not Be TikToked (working title), 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. The Revolution Will Not Be TikToked (working title) aims not only to reflect on our current situation, but also to imagine alternative ways of engaging with technology, nature, and each other.
Alfatih, 2021, self portrait