Amina Jendly (CH, 1998)
Residency period: October-December 2023
During my first month of residency, I worked on a group exhibition on the theme of work, organized by HEAD – Geneva and the Master CCC. In this project, I’m talking about recognizing invisible work, the free labor performed by thousands of people every day. Composed of an edition and embroideries on large tarpaulins, this project also proposes a speculative form to fill out in order to give equal consideration to this invisible work. The edition and embroideries produced at La Becque for this occasion were exhibited at the Live in Your HEAD space in Geneva.
At La Becque, I created the Gifts of the Waters project, inspired by the encounter between the storm and two “communities” living close to a water source: that of the Veveyse near the Gilamont district of Vevey, and that of Lake Geneva at La Becque. This project continues the gesture of the waters after their unleashing during the storms that enlivened the month of November 2023.
Finally, the residency was also an opportunity to continue various research projects, which notably enabled me to develop, in collaboration with other artists present, visitors, cats and a school class, my collective project of speculative fabulations Futurités croisées, which brings together “human and non-human” participants to create a speculative science-fiction narrative. — Amina Jendly
Based between Vevey and Valais, Amina Jendly is a Swiss artist, outreach officer and researcher who creates sensory and/or participatory installations, texts, fabulations, videos and meeting spaces between different living species. Her research focuses in particular on places and beings of the margins and liminal zones, on hydrofeminism (A. Neimanis), micro-organisms and the Planthroposcene (N. Myers), i.e. a temporality where one learns to develop respectful, stable and symbiotic ways of living with plants.
Amina Jendly, La Becque, 2023, photo Matthieu Croizier and Aurélien Haslebacher
Amina Jendly, Live in Your HEAD, Geneva, 2023, photo Amina Jendly