Biennale Images Vevey at La Becque

We’re delighted to be part of the Biennale Images Vevey 2024 with two projects presented at La Becque.

 

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 will also have 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.

 

The second project, One Bed, Two Blankets, Seventy-Six Rules is the first collaboration between Sabine Hess and Nicolas Polli. After meeting in Ticino and continuing a long-distance relationship, the couple decided to move in together in 2023 and began a project about their life together. During an artistic residency in Val Verzasca, Hess & Polli built an imaginary house. Alternating between symbolic representations and dramatizations of their relationship, the project plays with the standards and ideas of a relationship, establishing rules for living harmoniously. For the Biennale Images Vevey, the couple are taking stock of their first year by continuing their work at La Becque. A new chapter in this personal manifesto of living together, this installation offers universal advice on the evolution of a loving relationship.

 

Full program on www.images.ch.

Madison Bycroft, Waterlogue, Four to the Floor