Friday 9 June, from 6:30 pm
Launch of the second ORBIT_E capsule created by the artist Lauren Huret. Event accompanied by a DJ set proposed by Valerio Spoletini and an aperitif. Free entrance.
About the project
Can an image affect us ? How and by what means is it diffused ? How does it disappear ? How does it resurface ? Does an image have one or more powers? Do images cast spells on us? Finally, can images heal?
Building on these questions, Lauren continues her visual and theoretical research on the affects created by over-broadcast and over-capitalized images, their free circulation through global ‘techno-media’ devices, their effects on our behaviors and their so-called ‘performative’ powers. This time, Lauren will explore benevolent images, sacred images, healing images, in the form of a long hypnotic sequence shot, without beginning or end, as a response to the immediacy and acceleration of images – which will take as its primary source of inspiration the long literary descriptions, paintings, representations and fantasies related to the imaginaries of paradise.
To do this, Lauren will use the tools made available online by the company OpenAI, a software called Dall-e that allows the creation of images based on text, but also based on pre-existing images.
About the artiste
Lauren Huret was born in 1984 in Levallois-Perret (FR).
Her visual works and research, mainly composed of videos, installations, performances and collages, try to highlight the belief systems intrinsic to our technical and media devices. She now collaborates regularly with the artist Maria Guta.
Herwork has been shown, among others, at the Kunsthaus Langenthal, the Hard Hat gallery in Geneva, the Panacée in Montpellier, the Copenhagen Contemporary art museum, the Centre d’art contemporain in Geneva, the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris, the Fondation Ricard, the Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Red Brick museum in Beijing, the Can in Neuchâtel and in many independent art spaces. Her performances have been shown at the Swiss Performance Award at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, at the Théâtre de l’Usine in Geneva, at the festival Les Urbaines at the Arsenic in Lausanne. She has published five books to date including “Praying for my haters”, ed. CCS Paris, February 2019, “L’âge des techniciens”, with Pacôme Thiellement, ed. Clinamen, June 2017, “Artificial fear, Intelligence of Death”, ed. Link, co-pub. Kunsthaus Langenthal, April 2016.
Curation : Séverine Cattin
Project launched in 2022 with the precious support of Pro Helvetia.
