His performances also refer to social theatre and are a means of direct communication, crossing the boundaries of the art world to reach the sphere of the mass media and society itself. In 1997 he replaced the Indonesian delegate at the 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Commission; in 2004 he appeared on the VIP stand at the French Open tennis championships with a bag over his head to draw attention to the scandal of the Abu Ghraib prison. The market, finance and the economy itself are other key topics that Gianni Motti has also tackled on various occasions. In 2005, at ArtBasel, he exhibited a trader in a cage; and in 2009, at Zurich’s Migros Museum, he exhibited in cash the amount of money the museum had promised him in return for producing a work – radical, universal gestures that make this artist, who is both discreet and strategic, generous and thoughtful, a model of ethical and aesthetic positioning.

Noah Stolz is a productive, critical freelance curator. He writes for the journals Mousse, Kaleidoscope and Kunstbulletin, which he edited from 2004 to 2009. In 2004 he founded La Rada, an independent art centre in Locarno whose programme he produced until 2009, when he was joined by Patrick Gosatti. They jointly curated the Les Urbaines festival in Lausanne. Since 2009 he has also been a member of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture’s Federal Art Commission. In 2013 he organized the Geneva Art Society’s Prize, which was awarded to Gianni Motti. He is now working on the Stella Maris project, an ambitious production and dissemination platform in partnership with various Swiss and international institutions.