[Invitation to a panel discussion] GEN Z. SHAPING A NEW GAZE (Photo Elysée)
🗓 Friday 19 September 2025, 4 pm
📍 ECAL (IKEA Auditorium)
🥂 Followed by an aperitif 🥨

With the participation of:
- Laura Dawes, Webber Represents, London
- Julien Gallico, Julien Gallico Studio, Paris
- Aron Mörel, Mörel Books, London
- Robert Morat, Gallery owner, Berlin
- Christoph Wiesner, Rencontres de la photographie, Arles
Moderated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, Director of Photo Elysée, and Milo Keller, Head of Bachelor's and Master's Photography at ECAL.

ECAL graduates participating in this exhibition: Thaddé Comar · Matthieu Croizier · Sara De Brito Faustino · Alina Frieske · Mahalia Taje Giotto · Lorane Hochstätter · Isabella Madrid · Gabriela Marciniak · Carla Rossi · Tianyu Wang

https://ecal.ch/en/feed/events/1827/gen-z-un-nouveau-regard/
https://elysee.ch/expositions/gen-z/
📷 Isabella Madrid

Opening
Friday 26 September 2025, 18:00

CIRCUIT Centre d'art contemporain, Lausanne
Quai Jurigoz 1c
1006 Lausanne

Opening hours
27.09–08.11.2025, Tuesday–Saturday, 14:00–18:00

Public guided tour
Tuesday 7 October 2025, 17:30

In "I wanna hold the hand inside you", Lauryn Youden engages with the furniture designs of Eileen Gray, drawing attention to the understated sensuality embedded in works often characterized through the lens of modernist austerity. In dialogue with four of Gray’s pieces, Youden reorients their presence—interrupting conventional functionality and positioning them instead as sites of care, desire, and intimacy.

Eileen Gray’s furniture, historically celebrated for precision and restraint, is framed by Lauryn Youden as something more porous: an altar, a resting place, a vessel of affect. Through a Crip lens, she reveals the corporeal dimension already present in Gray’s practice, foregrounding the body not as a neutral user but as a desiring and unruly presence. In this reframing, Gray’s modernism becomes an architecture of care—one that accommodates exhaustion, pleasure, collapse, and pain. Rather than evoking the cold assurance of chrome and utility, Youden highlights qualities of fragility, persistence, and relationality. These works are not redesigned but rearticulated, made permeable, and shifted toward intimacy.

What emerges is a reconsideration of modernism’s resistance to affect—the possibility that form might yield to feeling, that the body itself could determine spatial meaning. Youden positions this tension not as an anecdotal departure, but as a structuring principle of intimacy: to relinquish control and acknowledge the vulnerability of inhabiting space.

Youden’s practice often operates between ritual and recovery, ornament and insistence, foregrounding the ways bodies inhabit and transform space. In "I wanna hold the hand inside you", she stages furniture as thresholds, adjusting objects that record touch, memory, and corporeal presence. Among these pieces, the Daybed is reimagined as an accessible sex swing, designed to invite collapse and become a sacred celebration of exhaustion, acknowledging the body’s limits and pleasures. The Bibendum Chair and the Transat Chair are recast as emblems of femme domination, their forms articulated to amplify agency, posture, and relational power. The iconic adjustable tables, arranged as mirrored doubles, suggest intimacy and bodies in dialogue, evoking loving relations, mourning, and shared temporalities. Taken together, these interventions transform domestic objects into a Crip archive: a space where utility gives way to care, longing, and embodied interaction, and where furniture becomes both companion and witness to corporeal experience.

Alongside these interventions, Youden presents twelve framed pages from Peter Adam’s biography of Gray, marked in red by her hand. The excerpts highlight Gray not only as a pioneering architect and designer but also as a queer creator whose life and work were shaped by intimacy, desire, and relationality. Her approach to making, her lovers, her tactile attention, and her position as a wealthy heiress are emphasized through these annotations. The frames, glazed on both sides and mounted from their edges, project into CIRCUIT’s exhibition space so that the text can be read from either side. In this configuration, the work functions both as an archive of queer history and as a spatial intervention, producing text that can be navigated, inhabited, and experienced bodily.

Foregrounding Gray’s queer life is not anecdotal but political. It resists the historical erasure that reduces design and architecture to neutral form. In this context, design is coded, affective, and particular; it holds and responds to embodied experience. A faint echo of accessibility hums through these works, as Crip and queer sensibilities intertwine. In Youden’s hands, Gray’s legacy emerges not as a static relic of modernism but as a living archive of bodies—yielding, desiring, and shaping space in their image.

Lauryn Youden is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist that works in sculpture, performance and installation. Her practice derives from her research in and navigation through the medical industrial complex, ‘alternative’ healing practices and traditional medicine for the treatment of her chronic illnesses and disabilities. By publicly presenting her personal experiences and re-evaluations of history through a Crip Queer lens, her work illuminates and advocates for repressed, marginalized and forgotten forms of radical care and Crip knowledge. Her work has been recently shown at Number 1 Main Road, Berlin; CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel; Migros Museum, Zürich; Tanzquartier Wien; Pogo Bar—KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Backrooms – Kunsthalle Zürich.

They are currently a participant in BPA// Berlin program for artists.

Image
Lauryn Youden, à lire avec les trois cigarettes oubliées (p. 183,
(détail : The E.1027 table as a bedside table with adjustable height), 2025

Support
Ville de Lausanne, État de Vaud, Loterie Romande, Fondation Casino Barrière Montreux, Profiducia Conseils SA

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[Avant-première 🎥] "The Deal" de Jean-Stéphane Bron
🗓 Jeudi 28 août 2025, 20h30
📍 Cinéma Capitole (Lausanne)
En présence de Jean-Stéphane Bron
Episode 1 : Miss Nobody et épisode 2 : L’Ingénieur
🕰️ 92 minutes
V.O. sous-titré en français
https://live.cinematheque.ch/films/the-deal

📌 Avril 2015. Un «round de la dernière chance» réunit à Genève les Etats-Unis, l’Iran, l’Europe, la Russie et la Chine afin d’encadrer le programme nucléaire de l’Iran, soupçonné de vouloir se doter de l’arme atomique. Cheffe du protocole suisse, Alexandra Weiss orchestre dans l’ombre ces négociations sous haute tension, sans se douter que des espions ont pour mission de les faire échouer. Alors qu’un événement inattendu propulse Alexandra à la tête de la mission diplomatique suisse, l’arrivée de Payam Sanjabi, un ingénieur envoyé à Genève pour épauler la délégation iranienne, va dangereusement compromettre son travail.

🎓 Jean-Stéphane Bron a obtenu son diplôme de réalisateur en audiovisuel à l'ECAL (à l'époque DAVI) en 1994.

RTS (13.08.2025) : https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/series/2025/article/the-deal-plongee-dans-les-coulisses-des-negociations-internationales-28965324.html

Le Temps (11.08.2025) :
https://www.letemps.ch/culture/ecrans/the-deal-de-jean-stephane-bron-un-passionnant-thriller-diplomatique
Interview : https://www.letemps.ch/culture/ecrans/jean-stephane-bron-realisateur-de-the-deal-les-negociations-sur-le-nucleaire-iranien-sont-devenues-comme-une-utopie

24 Heures (02.08.2025) :
https://www.24heures.ch/locarno-the-deal-premiere-serie-de-jean-stephane-bron-453694235493?

📷 Keystone - Jean-Christophe Bott

Collectif Je T'aime
is a collective founded in 2024 by Visual Arts alumni, and we will be part of an exhibition at marytwo in Lucerne.

The opening will take place on August 22 at 6 pm.

Rumour Has It
22.08–11.10.2025

Our fourth season titled This is 4u opens with the wide-ranging group exhibition Rumour Has It, weaving together works from different disciplines into a shared narrative. The exhibition focuses on the question of how rumours, mysteries, and behind-the-scenes knowledge shape the way we experience art and storytelling. On display will be newly produced and historical works, some created for an intimate setting, whilst others ponder the effects of circulation and the distortions that come with it.

By drawing attention to the stories surrounding artworks and artist personas, marytwo invites visitors to consider how secrecy, speculation, and the romanticisation of artistic processes influence our perception of art.

With works by:
Collectif Je T’aime
Aileen Lambert and Michael Fortune
Joanie 4 Jackie (Mary Billyou, Tammy Rae Carland, Miranda July, Hellin Kay, Ryder Cooley and Rachel Mayeri)
Laura Paloma
Joana Peralta Ferrer
Fanny Vaucher

Vernissage du livre TELEVISION
Vendredi 7 février 2025, 18h30 – 21h30
Café Le Nabi, Plateforme 10, Lausanne

Sophie Huguenot a le plaisir de vous inviter personnellement au vernissage de TELEVISION, édité chez Spector Books. Ce livre rassemble 10 ans de prises de vue sur la mise en scène de l'actualité, réalisées à la chambre photographique argentique. Au programme: présentation du livre, dédicace par l'artiste et apéritif convivial.

Au plaisir de vous y voir nombreuses et nombreux!

S'inscrire ici : https://udetjmfw0sa.typeform.com/to/Yc0K2Uq3

Le livre est en vente en librairie, auprès de l'artiste et lors du vernissage.

«Ce vaste corpus photographique atteste d’une période charnière où l’audiovisuel se métamorphose. Dans cette analyse d’une minutie chirurgicale, nulle tentative d’esthétisme, pas le moindre éblouissement face aux célébrités du petit écran. L’essentiel est ailleurs.» Bernard Rappaz

TELEVISION – Sophie Huguenot
Essai photographique sur la mise en scène de l'actualité / Ein Fotografischer Essay über die Inszenierung von Nachrichten – Textes / Texte: Mirjam Fischer, Sophie Huguenot, Bernard Rappaz, Jan Wenzel – Conception graphique / Grafische Gestaltung: Nicolas Eigenheer avec / mit Coline Houot
Publié par / Erschienen im Verlag: Spector Books, 2024
Pages / Seiten: 592 – Format: 145 x 215 mm
Langues / Sprachen: Français, Deutsch, English
Prix de vente / Verkaufspreis: CHF 60.-

Sophie a obtenu son Bachelor en photographie à l'ECAL en 2006.
https://www.sophiehuguenot.ch

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