madison bycroft
Biennale Images Vevey
07-29.09.2024
For the 2024 edition of the Biennale Images Vevey, La Becque hosted two projects by Australian artist Madison Bycroft.
The first one, Waterlogue, Four to the Floor is a video work by former resident Madison Bycroft, shot in the Alps and the Vevey region during an artistic residency at La Becque. Madison Bycroft’s film presents four people and a dog on a journey that poetically follows the water cycle. The project refers to Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of the ‘seametrics’, which explores the history of the Caribbean, marked by colonisation. Through metaphorical snapshots, like a metronome-mirror, the artist evokes the rhythm of water, its memory and its potential for transmission. Accompanied by a disco soundtrack, the work deconstructs the idea of a rigid world linked to a western vision of the land. This project is an ode to water, bearer of past experiences and of a fluid future linked to the environment.
In parallel with the installation, the public also had the opportunity to discover Joystick, an immersive video game designed by Bycroft which overturns the social and aesthetic codes of gaming, making disorientation and disobedience its guiding principles.
Madison Bycroft, Biennale Images Vevey, La Becque, 2024, photo Margaux Corda