Kim Coussée & Inner Light
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For No Holidays, Kim Coussée explores the modification of memory, the duty to remember the forgotten. She is interested in the alterations of the passage of time, which make it possible for a single person to perceive his or her own history in several different ways. By creating objects that she uses as initiators of memories, Kim Coussée brings to light a multitude of memory perceptions, whether they are synchronized or asynchronous, whether they belong to the same memory or not. The role of transmission then becomes essential and central: Which subjectivities do we decide to transmit? Which ones will not be perpetuated?

Created in 2018 and active between Paris, Geneva and Lausanne, Inner Light is a collective of artists working around printing and clothing. For this proposal, they emancipate themselves from the dressed form in order to develop and structure their reflections though paintings, highlighting and visually conceptualizing their creative processes. For its members, Inner Light functions as a school where one can seek alternative materials and means of production. By developing a practice between sculpture and clothing, Inner Light wishes to operate in coalition, horizontally, peer-to-peer, in a context where solidarity exists by necessity. By giving back to printmaking its serial aspect, Inner Light initiates a reflection on the craft as much as on the idea of luxury and its ambivalences. The collective seeks to radically position itself in the fashion industry, by rejecting the absurd injunctions of the big corporations, such as the shift to a supposed ‘green’ but nevertheless industrial production, the individualizing character of unique pieces, and the logomania, caught between ostentatious pride and counterfeiting practices. In a collective studio, the serial print allows to explore, integrate and share respective universes through a eight hands production.

Kim Coussée (1994, BE) is an independent graphic designer. She lives and works between Lausanne and Paris. She has been working with the Inner Light collective since 2018.

Sherian Mohammed Forster (1993, CH) graduated from ECAL in 2019. He is participating in an exchange program at the Ale School of Fine Arts, Addis Ababa in 2018. He has been working with the Inner Light collective since 2019.

Gaia Vincensini (1992, CH) lives and works between Geneva and Paris. Active in the Inner Light collective since 2018, she is a Manor Prize winner and currently in residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.

Eliott Villars (1995, CH) lives and works between Geneva and Paris. He is a 2019 graduate of Ecal and has been working with the collective since 2018.

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