Davide-Christelle Sanvee and Vicente Lesser tell us about the city, how it is inhabited, how it is made – by whom and for whom. They say the architectures, the textures, the forgotten details. They talk about a place, its structures, what it covers, and who it hides. Davide-Christelle and Vicente reveal the traced paths, the arranged corners, the defined spaces, then they arouse potentials and reverse the gaze.
Davide-Christelle Sanvee (1993, CH/TG) is an artist based in Geneva. She graduated from the HEAD–Genève in Fine Arts (BA, 2016) and from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam (MA, 2019). She is the winner of the Swiss Performance Award 2019 with her performance ‘Le ich dans nicht’. Recently, she has shown her work at E-flux, New-York ; Duplex, Geneva ; Fondation Ricard, Paris ; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau ; Istituto Svizzero, Roma ; DeSchool, Amsterdam ; Candyland, Stockholm ; Belluard Festival, Fribourg ; Centre Pompidou, Paris ; Urgent Paradise, Lausanne.
Vicente Lesser (1992, CH/CL) is an artist based in Geneva. He graduated from the ECAV in Fine Arts (BA, 2015) and from the Work.Master at HEAD–Genève (2020). Recently, he created a permanent site-specific installation for the Théâtre St-Gervais in Geneva and showed his work at Stattelkammer, Bern ; Lokal-Int, Biel/Bienne ; Archivio Conz, Berlin ; Les Halles, Porrentruy ; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (Bourses de la Ville de Genève 2021) ; Live in Your HEAD, Geneva ; Halle Nord, Geneva (Bourses déliées 2021).