HEAD Gallery Prize - Galerie Fabienne Levy
Each year, a Geneva gallery rewards a graduate from the Masters in Visual Arts by offering them their first solo exhibition. The 2024 laureates chosen to exhibit in 2025 at Galerie Fabienne Levy are Célia Noverraz and Elsa Wagnières.
Célia Noverraz (born 1999 in Geneva) presents Le rose ne sauve personne (Pink Saves No One), an exhibition-narrative that plunges visitors into a fragmented universe between dream and reality. After a boozy evening, a group of friends enters a mysterious pink container and drifts through spaces with irrational logics. Unfolding across five chapters, the exhibition interweaves text, painting and ceramic sculpture in a constant dialogue between writing and visual creation. Each room becomes a narrative fragment where the works embody characters, memories and mental spaces, transforming the exhibition into a living book, an immersive fiction inspired by street theatre and puppetry, where the pieces serve as both functional sets and actors in a visual and poetic narrative.
Elsa Wagnières presents Là où rien ne devait pousser (Where Nothing Should Have Grown), an immersive installation where 12 families of hybrid creatures inhabit a world of ash and light. Conceived with Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT from the fictional bestiary "Deep vermins" written by the artist, these techno-organic species are conceived by the machine and inspired by survival strategies of living organisms in ravaged mining sites. Between art, science and ecological speculation, the exhibition questions resource depletion, technological dependence and the possibility of mutant life born from disaster. Through a journey combining pathways, sounds and organic materials, visitors dive into a futuristic ecosystem where life has reinvented itself after ecocide, a critical fiction where AI models a future shaped by its own conditions of destruction and invites us to rethink the power dynamics between natural and artificial.
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