Photo Elysée, Place de la Gare 17, 1003 Lausanne
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Photo Elysée gives Maya Rochat free rein to create an immersive installation on the theme of water.
In the project conceived especially for the museum, the Swiss artist primarily shot film footage on and under water, which she first reworked into video montages and then projected and superimposed with images printed on canvas, wallpaper or similar.
For example, she confronts the powerful dynamics of waves with plastic plants in an aquarium in which the water level gradually rises. This tension between beauty and the fear associated with the growing destruction of our planet is a constant in Maya Rochat's work.
The artist has been working with a variety of experimental media for many years. In her multimedia work, the image becomes a wall fresco, a light box, a printed carpet, a woven blanket ... Her artistic approach is a play with materiality, with scale, with colors and transparency. In this way, she also changes the way we look at things and gives us an experience of water as a living space at the boundaries of our reality.
By underlaying her pictures with the musical sounds of the artist Blackout, Maya Rochat creates an atmosphere that seems to put us in a kind of limbo. Water is coming becomes a metaphor for our experience of the world. We are invited to take the time to pause in the midst of this multifaceted space, in which the living undergoes a metamorphosis and is sublimated, and to abandon ourselves to our thoughts and sensations.
The encounter between the natural and the artificial creates a paradox, and behind the supposed tranquillity filled with melancholy lies a visual sensory overload to which the artist exposes us. Through this detour, Maya Rochat invites us to reconnect with the energies of which we are made and at the same time encourages us to reflect on the future of our ecosystems and our impact on the environment.
Maya Rochat is a visual artist from Switzerland. She works with various media in the fields of photography, painting, video, installation and performance. She graduated from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2009 and from the Haute école d'art et de design (HEAD) in 2012. Her work has been shown in numerous major exhibition venues, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP, Paris), the Tate Modern (London) and the Palais de Tokyo (Paris).
Performance "Dessins de l'eau. Maya Rochat × Blackout"
Friday, November 22 at 7 pm at Photo Elysee
In the project conceived especially for the museum, the Swiss artist primarily shot film footage on and under water, which she first reworked into video montages and then projected and superimposed with images printed on canvas, wallpaper or similar.
For example, she confronts the powerful dynamics of waves with plastic plants in an aquarium in which the water level gradually rises. This tension between beauty and the fear associated with the growing destruction of our planet is a constant in Maya Rochat's work.
The artist has been working with a variety of experimental media for many years. In her multimedia work, the image becomes a wall fresco, a light box, a printed carpet, a woven blanket ... Her artistic approach is a play with materiality, with scale, with colors and transparency. In this way, she also changes the way we look at things and gives us an experience of water as a living space at the boundaries of our reality.
By underlaying her pictures with the musical sounds of the artist Blackout, Maya Rochat creates an atmosphere that seems to put us in a kind of limbo. Water is coming becomes a metaphor for our experience of the world. We are invited to take the time to pause in the midst of this multifaceted space, in which the living undergoes a metamorphosis and is sublimated, and to abandon ourselves to our thoughts and sensations.
The encounter between the natural and the artificial creates a paradox, and behind the supposed tranquillity filled with melancholy lies a visual sensory overload to which the artist exposes us. Through this detour, Maya Rochat invites us to reconnect with the energies of which we are made and at the same time encourages us to reflect on the future of our ecosystems and our impact on the environment.
Maya Rochat is a visual artist from Switzerland. She works with various media in the fields of photography, painting, video, installation and performance. She graduated from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2009 and from the Haute école d'art et de design (HEAD) in 2012. Her work has been shown in numerous major exhibition venues, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP, Paris), the Tate Modern (London) and the Palais de Tokyo (Paris).
Performance "Dessins de l'eau. Maya Rochat × Blackout"
Friday, November 22 at 7 pm at Photo Elysee
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Place de la Gare 17
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