10.01.2024
Talk – Sunday January the 14th at 5PM
I’m super happy to invite you to the talk of next Sunday, January the 14th at 5PM at Casa Pessina between Silva Semadeni, historian, politician and teacher, Elisa Medde, photography and visual culture scholar and Aline d’Auria. The talk will be moderated by Francesca Bernasconi, curator.Hope to see you there!
18.12.2023
Tre donne at Solothurner Filmtage
Super happy to share that my synchronised three channels video installation “Tre donne” (“Three Women”) part of “Se chiudo gli occhi vedo la montagna” (“If I close my eyes I see the mountain”) will be screened at the Solothurner Filmtage – Journées de Soleure – Giornate di Soletta in the Panorama autres écritures!!The three channels video installation will be visible all day at Jungendherberge Rötisaal.
22-23.01.2024 // 9.00 – 21.00
24.01.2024 // 9.00 – 13.00
Again thank you to all the people involved in this project, especially Noemi Ferrari, Ursula Palmy and Alessandra Rigato (the three women).
See you in Solothurn!
06.11.2023
Se chiudo gli occhi vedo la montagna
Opening Saturday 18 November at 18.00Casa Pessina, Ligornetto
With an introduction by the photography and visual culture scholar Elisa Medde
19.11.2023 – 17.12.2023 // 07-21.01.2024
Open Sat – Sun 14.00 – 18.00
Exhibition curated by Francesca Bernasconi
Graphic design by Marco Cassino
This project has been realised with the support of: Repubblica e Cantone Ticino Fondo Swisslos, Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Museo d’arte Mendrisio, Comune di Chiasso
See you in Ligornetto!
24.10.2023
We are all going home at the Ospedale Beata Vergine, Mendrisio
We are all going home Lullabies and The Mental Journey will be presented in Mendrisio, at the Ospedale Beata Vergine during the official presentation of the Quaderni delle Medical Humanities.Opening 26.10.2023, 17.00
Until 6.1.2024
24.10.2023
We are all going home in the Quaderni delle Medical Humanities
Featured in the portfolio in the Pictures section of the Notebooks.With a text by Charlotte Sironi Tron.
After fifty issues, the journal published by the Sasso Corbaro Foundation in collaboration with the Cantonal Hospital Authority is launching a new series called “Quaderni delle Medical Humanities,” a six-monthly publication. The theme of the first issue is Voice.
For more information “Pathways in the Medical Humanities”
23.05.2023
Exploratory video and music
Concert and video at Cantina Cavallini.A good reharsal and a good way to restart and continue to play with music and video.
07.03.2023
9 March 2023, near @ Musée d’art de Pully
I am very glad to participate to this exhibition as part of the near collective.
As an echo to Auguste Veillon’s show Voyages au fil de l’eau, the second floor of the Museum presents an exhibition devoted to two main themes in the work of the Swiss painter, the Lake Léman and the Orient, through works by contemporary artists.
150 years after Veillon’s journey to the MENA region, the British-Tunisian artist Rayane Jemaa and the Swiss artist Céline Burnand offer very different testimonies from the idealised Orient depicted by Veillon, between a representation of the Orient through video games and the intimacy of a daily life in Cairo.
As for the Lake Léman, it offers new perspectives to contemporary artists: mystical and free landscapes-face by the French artist Vidya Gastaldon, it is also the witness of the long-distance relationship of the two women artists who form the Lebanese-Moroccan collective Jeanne et Moreau. Finally, the members of near. Swiss association for contemporary photography present the privileged views of photographers for whom the region has no secrets.
Vernissage 9th March, 2023 at 6pm – Join us!
26.02.2023
Francesco Giudici and Aline d’Auria at FEM @ La Straordinaria 4.3.2023
So so excited to show new images in collaboration with Francesco Giudici, Friday 4.3.2023 at 21.00 during the FEM, Festival of Electronic Music at La Straordinaria, Tour Vagabonde, Lugano.
Aline d’Auria (1982, video artista e fotografa) e Francesco Giudici (1980, musicista e sociologo) presentano a La Straordinaria un nuovo spettacolo immersivo dove lunghi sguardi persi nel paesaggio del tempo si intrecciano con suoni onirici e riflessivi. Entrambi tra i cofondatori dell’associazione Grande Velocità basata a Chiasso, che dal 2015 cura e propone le attività culturali a Spazio Lampo e da poco più di un anno propone concerti all’ex bar Mascetti, Aline e Francesco collaborano come artisti dal 2006 proponendo installazioni audio visive, film, video arte, musica e proiezioni dal vivo. L’ultimo lavoro video We are all going home, di Aline e con le chitarre di Francesco, descrive l’ambivalenza contenuta nel concetto di casa seguendo persone originarie all’Est Europa residenti a Chiasso ed esplora le percezioni del vissuto nei confronti dei concetti di casa, appartenenza e potere. Francesco ha di recente pubblicato assieme al musicista zurighese Simon Grab [No] Surrender (-OUS Records, 2022) album che spazia tra feedback elettronici e droni chitarristici, presentato come “un manifesto forte e incensurato contro le ingiustizie sociali e ambientali”.
14.12.2022
I LEAVE at the 58th Solothurner Filmtage
I LEAVE with original music of Francesco Giudici and Simon Grab will be presented at the 58th Solothurner Filmtage in the Section Panorama Short-films!21.01.2023 – 9h45 – Kino Canva
24.01.2023 – 14h15 – Kino Canva
And and don’t miss the live concert of Simon Grab and Francesco Giudici!!
22.01.2023 – 21h00 – Uferbau
21.11.2022
We are all going home at (UN)MAKING HOME – ROME!!
21 -27.11.2022So happy that my work We are all going home is traveling!
The exhibition is part of the #FestivaldelleScienzeRoma and is a project by the students of the 12th edition of the Master in Management of Artistic and Cultural Resources at IULM University, in collaboration with Auditorium Parco della Musica, has as its theme heterotopia and the exploration of abandoned places.
The exhibition opens with the evocative photographic series by Dario Cagliati. Urban Exploration, continues with the works of David de Rueda, in which abandoned places live in a space of indetermination, and concludes with the emotional tale of the audio-video installation We are all going home by Aline d’Auria.
18.08.2022
We are all going home revisited goes to Verzasca Foto Festival – Breathing Houses
I’m happy to be part of the Verzasca Foto Festival with a brand different presentation of my work “We are all going home”: no video but big prints of the physical trips along the way from Gordola to Brione. And then, at Castello Marcacci, a bedroom with lullabies, the disco ball and the selection of the pictures shared via socials of the persons I met during the project.Don’t miss the personal bedroom concerts of Francesco Giudici Sunday, the 4th of September in the room of the installation, always Castello Marcacci.
Breathing Houses
Edition 9 / Main days: 31 August – 4 September 2022
Valle Verzasca, Switzerland
Here the full program of the festival: http://www.verzascafoto.com
24.07.2022
Wolfes at Cima Norma Art Festival
My video “wolves” will be shown during the concert of Simon Grab and Francesco Giudici at Cima Norma Art Festival Saturday the 30th of July 2022!
30.06.2022
We are all going home, part of the Canton Ticino public collection
So so happy that my work We are all going home (edition of 7), composed of videos, audio, texts and photography is now part of the Cantone Ticino public collection.
31.05.2022
We are all going home, tour part I and II
Images Aline d’AuriaMusic Francesco Giudici
Five days full of people, landscapes, discussions and friends.
How great is to see my work, our work in different places, perceived differently by all of you people.
We felt at home in all the places, Windisch, Stuttgart, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Bienne and Lausanne. Thanx to Susanna Baer and Andreas Seibert for the organisation and your so kind hospitality, to Moritz and the Neue Schachtel, to Nicolas Bollégo La Société de Consommation, Noémie Doge, Aline Henchoz, Katia Ritz and Florian Hauswirth, Stéphanie Tschopp, L-Imprimerie, Sylvie Godel and all the people that were there and with whom we could share something, little or giant, wherever.
How much we liked this? We are seriously thinking to continue and to go… south!!
06.04.2022
Swiss Press Awards 2022!
Our project 50/50/50 wins the 2nd price in the category PORTRAIT of the Swiss Press Awards 2022.Proud to be part of the collectif and the project with the portrait of Rosa Gatto.
If you are in Bern April the 27th there will be Swiss Press Awards ceremony!
04.04.2022
We are all going home tour!
Live music + video projections
Francesco Giudici & Aline d’Auria
Finally it’s time to move and tour a bit with We are all going home live sessions!
Below the list of dates and places we will visit.
I hope to see you around!
08.04.22 – Diesel Lokal, Zürich (Windisch)
09.04.22 – Neue Schachtel, Stuttgart (D)
28.04.22 – Société de Consommation, La Chaux-de-Fonds
29.04.22 – Fab-A, Bienne
30.04.22 – L-Espace du fond, L-Imprimerie, Lausanne
08.03.2022
Kunstbulletin 3/2022
“(…) Ma cosa succede nell’animo dell’individuo durante questi spostamenti? Aline d’Auria con sensibilità e circospezione ha ripreso persone intente a dirigersi da un luogo a un altro con diversi mezzi di trasporto. La cinepresa ritrae profili e paesaggi di una bellezza estatica, immersi in uno spazio- tempo assorto, perpetuo e presente, comune allo stato di transito.(…)”.Difficile non pensare agli spostamenti che si stanno svolgendo adesso. Fisici, mentali e digitali di tutta l’umanità. Ma soprattutto verso e dall’Ucraina.
Appena uscito nel numero 3 del Kunst-Bulletin un articolo sul mio lavoro “We are all going home” scritto da Charlotte Tron, storica dell’arte indipendente, che ringrazio di cuore ancora una volta.
Con Francesco Giudici (Black Fluo).
Qui l’articolo.
21.02.2022
We are all going home allo Studio Foce
Mercoledì si è svolta la presentazione del mio libro allo Studio Foce. Serata organizzata dalla città di Lugano in collaborazione con Artphilein Editions. Avevo la possibilità di scegliere con chi chiacchierare su tematiche a me care, ho così pensato a Sandro Cattacin, sociologo, professore all’Università di Ginevra da poco sentito per un progetto che sta facendo con Fiorenza Gamba, professoressa anche lei a Ginevra, su Chiasso, come città, come entità e tutti i suoi attori. A volte non è un caso se ad un dato momento un incrocio di vite avviene. Mercoledì è stato bello e commovente. In primo luogo sentire, risentire ma sempre riscoprire, la composizione musicale riarrangiata dai Black Fluo (Francesco Giudici e Mario Pegoraro) sui primi 12 minuti dell’installazione video su due canali. Poi chiacchierare con Sandro e Giulia Brivio come moderatrice. Non è facile essere su un palco a parlare, non sono abituata, ma l’energia che si crea è sempre forte e chissà cosa seguirà.
Un grazie di cuore allo Studio Foce e Ilenia Ricci, ad Artphilein Editions, Giulia Bruvio, Caterina de Pietri, a Sandro Cattacin, e Francesco Giudici e Mario Pegoraro (Black Fluo).
Foto © Igor Grbesic, Ufficio Comunicazione
Dicastero Cultura, Sport ed Eventi
11.02.2022
Book presentation with Sandro Cattacin
Wednesday February the 16th, 18h30With live music by Black Fluo
Studio Foce – Lugano
Agorateca Incontri, in collaborazione con Choisi Bookshop e Artphilein Editions
“Aline d’Auria racconta il sogno di sentirsi a casa delle immigrate e immigrati dell’Est Europa che vivono a Chiasso. L’autrice e il Prof. Sandro Cattacin, professore di sociologia all’Università di Ginevra, presentano il libro d’artista “We are all going home”, pubblicato da Artphilein Editions.
Il progetto nasce dalla volontà di riflettere sull’immagine di Est Europa. La confusione geografica, retaggio della cortina di ferro, si riflette sulle persone che provengono dai più vicini paesi ex sovietici: non rifugiati, non immediatamente identificabili come stranieri, ma persone che hanno scelto un altro paese europeo, sempre in bilico tra la possibilità e la voglia di rivedere una casa per scoprirla, forse, non più casa.”
Apertura della serata con live dei Black Fluo, autori della colonna sonora della video-installazione We are all going home
Modera Giulia Brivio
Immagine: Studio Foce, Comune di Lugano
Dicastero Cultura, Sport ed Eventi – Divisione eventi e congressi
Studio Foce, via Foce 1, 6900 Lugano
Talk about my book We are all going home with sociologist Sandro Cattacin.
Opening with live performance of Black Fluo!
26.11.2021
La Regionale
It’s such a pleasure to announce that I will be part of the first edition of La Regionale, first group exhibition that bring together the work of artists from Ticino and Italian Grisons. It will take place at Villa Ciani, Lugano. Amazing, I grew up in Lugano but never relate to it as an artist. Since I moved back in Ticino I was deeply taken by Chiasso. In this group exhibition I will present a part of my multi channel video installation We are all going home.Let’s see how it will fit in Lugano!
Villa Ciani, Lugano
Curated by ACXSI
11.12.2021 — 09.01.2022
Opening Friday 10.12.2021 18.00
www.laregionale.ch
28.10.2021
Malleus Maleficarum by Virginie Rebetez at Galleria Cons Arc Chiasso
I have the big pleasure to be part of this:Virginie Rebetez with her so great Malleus Maleficarum at Galleria Cons Arc. Exhibition I’m curating.
DON’T MISS IT.
opening 31.10 11h00 – 17h00 with the presence of Virginie! 🔥🔥🎃
Conversation between Mauro Zanchi, Virginie Rebetez and myself Sunday 21.11.2021 Galleria Cons Arc at 17h00
It will be great, it will be awesome
Thank you Daniela and Guido Giudici and Virginie Rebetez 🖤
more on www.galleriaconsarc.ch
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In mostra alla Cons Arc Malleus Maleficarum, un lavoro sul visibile e l’invisibile di Virginie Rebetez (CH).
Virginie Rebetez, artista e fotografa svizzera residente a Losanna, presenta per la prima volta in Ticino il suo lavoro Malleus Maleficarum, realizzato nell’ambito dell’11esima edizione dell’Enquête photographique fribourgeoise. In Ticino sarà presente con una serie fotografica composta da ritratti, paesaggi, da un video Sedute Medianiche. Incontro con Claude Bergier (23 minuti, loop, nero, suono) e dal libro in vendita e in mostra, edito da BCU Fribourg e Meta/Books, Amsterdam.
Il titolo Malleus Maleficarum, in italiano Il martello delle malefiche (delle streghe), ci arriva da un trattato del 1487 usato come guida teorica contro la stregoneria. Rebetez se ne serve come punto di partenza per riabilitare un passato nel quale ci si serviva di questo testo come scusa e mezzo per accusare chi, secondo le credenze di allora, veniva definito come “diverso” e quindi pericoloso per la società. Claude Bergier, guaritore e presunto stregone messo al rogo nel 1628, è il fil rouge che Rebetez usa come ponte tra passato e presente, tra i medium di oggi e gli stregoni di allora, senza mai sfociare però nel voyeurisme, ma sfidando la storia e ciò che ne rimane.
(…) Propongo all’anima di Claude Bergier di venire, se è d’accordo. Di avvicinarsi, se è proprio lui. Per avere una discussione sana. Una discussione di pace, di semplicità. Con noi, i vivi, e tu, il defunto. (…) (tratto da Sedute Medianiche. Incontro con Claude Bergier, 23 minuti, loop, nero, solo suono).
Malleus Maleficarum è un lavoro che ci fa riflettere sulla complessità del medium, siano esse persone o mezzo fotografico, in passato e ai nostri giorni, e consente un’ulteriore riflessione oltre che sulla storia, sul concetto stesso di fotografia, quale traccia. Da tempo il lavoro di Rebetez ruota attorno al tema dell’assenza, dell’invisibile e della partenza spingendo sempre di più sé stessa e il mezzo fotografico.
Non è nemmeno casuale che la mostra veda la sua apertura a Chiasso il 31 ottobre, la vigilia di Ognissanti, festa celtica cristianizzata che precede il giorno dedicato ai defunti dalla religione cattolica, un clin d’oeil al lavoro di Rebetez e alla sua mostra.
(…) Sa per caso se nel ventre di sua mamma, qualcosa avrebbe potuto andare storto, per lei? (…)
Non aggiungiamo altro, se non che si tratta di un lavoro dalle molteplici letture da vedere e rivedere, ascoltare ed elaborare, dove ognuno di noi riesce ad estrapolare qualcosa di intenso e viscerale, e alla fine farlo suo.
Aline d’Auria, ottobre 2021
22.08.2021
We are all going home – ChiassoLetteraria Book presentation – 1.9.2021 – 18h30 – Cinema Excelsior, Chiasso
I’m so glad to announce the presentation of my book We are all going home, edited by Artphilein Editions, during ChiassoLetteraria festival. The event will be a discussion between myself, Andrea Staid, author of La casa vivente, edited by add Editore, and will be moderated by Christelle Pagnamenta Campana, Journalist. Please come by, say hello and let’s talk about home!Sono felicissima di annunciarvi la presentazione del mio libro We are all going home edito da Artphilein Editions, in occasione del festival di letteratura ChiassoLetteraria. L’incontro sarà un dialogo insieme ad Andrea Staid, antropologo, autore del libro La casa vivente, edito da add Editore, 2021, e sarà moderata da Christelle Pagnamenta Campana, giornalista.
L’incontro, che vede l’interazione tra la videoartista Aline d’Auria e l’antropologo italiano Andrea Staid, vuole interrogarsi sul senso dell’abitare: che differenza c’è tra stare a casa e sentirsi a casa?
Di che casa parliamo se ho dovuto lasciarla o se non ce l’ho?
Come dare nuovi significati all’abitare contemporaneo?
Quali alternative sono immaginabili?
Aline d’Auria è autrice della videoinstallazione immersiva We are all going home presentata all’undicesima edizione della Biennale dell’Immagine di Chiasso nella sede del rifugio pubblico e diventata, in un secondo tempo, libro.
Andrea Staid è docente di Antropologia culturale e visuale presso la Naba e ricercatore presso Universidad de Granada, dirige per Meltemi la collana Biblioteca /Antropologia. Ha scritto: I dannati della metropoli, Gli arditi del popolo, Abitare illegale, Le nostre braccia, Senza Confini, Contro la gerarchia e il dominio, La casa vivente.
I suoi libri sono tradotti in Grecia, Germania, Spagna. Collabora con diverse testate giornalistiche tra le quali Il Tascabile e Left.
Bisogna riservare il proprio posto seduto: qui
Click here to order! / Clicca qui per ordinare il libro
(or email me)
Cinema Excelsior
Via S. Franscini 10
6830 Chiasso
21.07.2021
50/50/50
“Che ogni donna quando partorisce sia consapevole e che possa fare quello che vuole nella sua consapevolezza, che mamma e bambino partino bene, di vivere qui e ora nell’amore, e in quello che sta facendo, questo è il mio più grande desiderio.
Il ruolo del papà è fondamentale, il lavoro del papà spesso passa in sordina, ma quello che è e fa il papà è molto importante. In effetti si dice, più il papà guarda bene la moglie, più la moglie guarda bene il bambino, è una catena, che non è sempre evidente, né facile.”
Rosa Gatto
50/50/50
Honoured to be part of this great and big project: @50_50_50.ch Frauenstreikfotografinnen
50 photographers* portrayed 50 women*, 50 years after women got the right to vote in Switzerland
Since I met Rosa, when Iacopo, my son, was born, I immediately thought she was a super-heroine: a fighter, a magician, a witch. She has always fought for the children, understanding body language as if it were her own: with a simple sight, without communicating with verbal language, with adults and babies, she sees and foresees. I’m always been moved from her, and I can’t imagine my first months and years as a mother without her. Really I can’t. She is a gift and I will never stop telling how lucky we were meeting her that day in Mendrisio, almost crying with Francesco and Iacopo. Thank you Rosa. Grazie Rosa Gatto.
Don’t miss the project around Switzerland. Next appointment will be in Bellinzona with a talk 29.7.2021 at 21h00 at SpazioReale in Monte Carasso. I will be there with many other women of the project.
Lausanne Grand Pont 14.06 – 14.07.2021 | Zürich Kulturbar Das Gleis 14.06 – 27.06.2021 | Bellinzona SpazioReale 22.07 – 22.08.2021 | Bern Kornhausforum 24.06 – 10.08 2021 Kornhausplatz, Casinoplatz und Münsterplatz 06.08 – 27.08.2021 | Basel Kaserne 01.09 – 20.09.2021 | Yverdon-les-Bains Ville 17.09 – 15.10.2021 | Genève Quai Wilson 01.10 – 30.10.2021
Il ruolo del papà è fondamentale, il lavoro del papà spesso passa in sordina, ma quello che è e fa il papà è molto importante. In effetti si dice, più il papà guarda bene la moglie, più la moglie guarda bene il bambino, è una catena, che non è sempre evidente, né facile.”
Rosa Gatto
50/50/50
Honoured to be part of this great and big project: @50_50_50.ch Frauenstreikfotografinnen
50 photographers* portrayed 50 women*, 50 years after women got the right to vote in Switzerland
Since I met Rosa, when Iacopo, my son, was born, I immediately thought she was a super-heroine: a fighter, a magician, a witch. She has always fought for the children, understanding body language as if it were her own: with a simple sight, without communicating with verbal language, with adults and babies, she sees and foresees. I’m always been moved from her, and I can’t imagine my first months and years as a mother without her. Really I can’t. She is a gift and I will never stop telling how lucky we were meeting her that day in Mendrisio, almost crying with Francesco and Iacopo. Thank you Rosa. Grazie Rosa Gatto.
Don’t miss the project around Switzerland. Next appointment will be in Bellinzona with a talk 29.7.2021 at 21h00 at SpazioReale in Monte Carasso. I will be there with many other women of the project.
Lausanne Grand Pont 14.06 – 14.07.2021 | Zürich Kulturbar Das Gleis 14.06 – 27.06.2021 | Bellinzona SpazioReale 22.07 – 22.08.2021 | Bern Kornhausforum 24.06 – 10.08 2021 Kornhausplatz, Casinoplatz und Münsterplatz 06.08 – 27.08.2021 | Basel Kaserne 01.09 – 20.09.2021 | Yverdon-les-Bains Ville 17.09 – 15.10.2021 | Genève Quai Wilson 01.10 – 30.10.2021
07.06.2021
Taking over – Take near – this week!
So happy to share my work in the near. instagram account.Near is a Swiss association for the contemporary photography, which I’m a member since its foundation.
04.06.2021
We are all going home – the book!
I’m so pleased to finally receive freshly printed my book We are all going home, edited by Artphilein Editions, and with the design of great graphic designer Marco Cassino.It is so a pleasure, it was so much intense and long and a hard work, with discussions, changes, revisions… I knew it was hard to make a book, but this hard!
I’m happy, happy to have something to look at, to get lost into it, to discover and rediscover my work, image after image.
The book contains all the parts of the multi-channels video installation, two texts by Misia Bernasconi and Michele Marangi (in Italian and English), and much more.
Thank you to all the people who helped me, supported me, have contributed. All of you. Thank you.
Book available here
Aline d’Auria
We are all going home
Artphilein Editions, Lugano — 2021
Texts: Misia Bernasconi, Lucia Ceccato and Michele Marangi.
Graphic design: Marco Cassino
Translation: Sylvia Adrian Notini
Pages: 162 + 36
Edition: 290 copies + 10 special editions with one signed print
Dimensions: 26.5 x 18.5 cm
Language: Italian, English
ISBN: 9788894518634
01.06.2021
Algae Como Festival
Friday June the 11th at 20h00 I will present We are all going home during the Algae Como Festival at Terzo Spazio Como. A great opportunity and a challenge for me and my work: with musicians Francesco Giudici and Mario Pegoraro, from Swiss band Black Fluo which already made the music for my work, we will record the live music session and performance during the opening. This new version will play in loop during the three days of the exhibition. So so happy and curious to see it, to see how will react people, the piece and how the images will interact among them, since there will be no synchro between the two channels.
17.03.2021
Bieler Fototage 7-30.5.2021!!
Finally, after one year of transitions, the next edition of the Bienne Festival of Photography CRACKS, will take place. So so glad to be part of it with my multichannel video installation We are all going home. It will be also the super occasion to present my new book of the project, done with graphic designer Marco Cassino and edited by Artphilein Editions. So so happy!!CRACKS. Identity crises, political instabilities, ecological transitions, economic restructurings – the photographers and projects exhibited in the 24th edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography create spaces to reflect about the implications of the ruptures that preoccupy our societies today. At a time when our political systems are in crisis, debates about coexistence are rising, protests are ringing out across the globe and when social networks provoke a sense of community as well as physical isolation, the festival offers a face-to-face encounter with contemporary images. This year’s edition aims to question our collective unconscious, and perhaps, in a climate of breakdown, find a collective awareness. Because at last, is it not from the cracks and gaps that the decisive moment emerges?
Our itinerary through the city of Biel/Bienne features more than 20 exhibitions at various venues. Building on new collaborations, the festival launches two special projects to be discovered as part of the exhibition program: the Enquête photographique Jura bernois and the Taurus Prize for Visual Arts. Moreover, the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography will be enlivened by meetings, performances, radio programmes and workshops.
Sarah Girard, director
31.12.2020
Ho visto un uomo sull’albero che mi guardava
Very very happy to be part of the second edition of “Collection Lockdown by Swiss Filmmakers – 2nd wave” produced by Frédéric Gonseth Production, Turnus Film AG and Cinedokké, in coproduciton with SRG SSR.The 25 short films are be visible on Play Suisse from December the 30th from 4PM!
It was such an intense period. Got the ok to shot and two weeks to make it. I had to deal with my mother’s quarantine, then mine, stuck with my entire family at home editing during the nights, then got corona! So… yes, f**k it!
Thank you to all the producers, to my mother, to all the doctors, to Alessandra Novaga and her marvellous music she composed for me, to Marco Cassino who made the graphic design, Vincenzo Marinese for the color, Riccardo Studer for the sound mix and to Francesco, my life and art personal advisor.
22.09.2020
Tra due punti di partenza Chiasso, We all are going home
Friday October the 9th 19h15, at the public library in Bellinzona, I will be in conversation with Paola Piffaretti, Lucia Ceccato, Viorica Radu, Cristina Tudose and Attilio Cometta presenting my last work We are all going home and the next book I’m working on edited by Artphilein Editions out in 2021.Don’t miss Black Fluo‘s live music improvisation on my images!
Only 40 places, book your seat at bcb-segr.sbt@ti.ch
08.07.2020
Proiezioni Grande Velocità
So proud and so happy we could make it! I was curator of a drive-in cinema, a cinema en plein air in Chiasso with special guests and cartes blanches to: Gregory Catella, Frédéric Maire, Biennale dell’Immagine Chiasso, Lili Hinstin, Marco Müller and Alberto Cano.Thank you to the City of Chiasso for the support and the collaboration and Adieu mon Amour: our live FM radio with Alan Alpenfelt, Rebecca Maspoli and Dirceu Fernandes. Thank you all.
20.03.2020
Cracks postponed!
No one can hide from viruses. In a present where we have to deal to a new dimension, time changes and the present takes new perspectives. After Crash in Chiasso, the world cracks, and the editions called “cracks” of the next Bienne Photography festival scheduled in 2020 will be postponed in 2021.Here the text of the artistic director Sarah Girard.
Identity crises, political instabilities, ecological transitions, economic restructurings – the photographers and projects exhibited in the 24th edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography create spaces to reflect about the implications of the ruptures that preoccupy our societies today. At a time when our political systems are in crisis, debates about coexistence are rising, protests are ringing out across the globe and when social networks provoke a sense of community as well as physical isolation, the festival offers a face-to-face encounter with contemporary images. This year’s edition aims to question our collective unconscious, and perhaps, in a climate of breakdown, find a collective awareness. Because at last, is it not from the cracks and gaps that the decisive moment emerges?
When we were planning the 24th edition of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography around the questions of ruptures that preoccupy our societies today, we did not imagine that we would be caught up in current events and the frightening reality of the very theme that was to be presented in this year’s festival. As the world slows down, as our daily routines are disrupted and our social ties transformed, the entire team at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography announces, with great regret, that the 24th edition will be postponed until next year.
During this troubled and difficult period, we ask you to take some time, and to find us again in May 2021. Meanwhile, from your own home, you can dive into the exhibition programme of our 24th edition here and find an overview in the Spring issue of La couleur des jours, in the article Brèches et fissures.
If you wish to support the festival, you can contact the direction at sarah.girard@jouph.ch or make a donation to our account.
IBAN: CH07 0079 0016 5108 3105 7
We thank you for your understanding and your support. Please take care of yourselves, and let us continue to support one another!
09.03.2020
Journées photographiques de Bienne – Cracks – group show
After Crash (Biennale dell’immagine, Chiasso) now there will be Cracks! So happy to present my multichannel installation We are all going home to the next Journées photographiques de Bienne / Bieler Fototage at the Nouveau Musée Bienne.Stay tuned! Opening 8.5.2020
15.11.2019
Conversation with Professor Michele Marangi
Saturday November the 16th at 15h30 there will be a conversation with Professor Michele Marangi in my installation around communication (to watch, to see, to perceive) and more!It will be the perfect November day, so if you are around, come by!
21.10.2019
NEAR Talk @ Galleria Cons Arc
So happy to participate to the next NEAR talk at Galleria Cons Arc.Thank you Ann Griffin from NEAR for the organisation and for inviting us!
16.09.2019
We are all going home
Opening Saturday October the 5th, 15.00. Rifugi Protezione civile, via Soave 1, in Chiasso, Switzerland.6.10.2019 – 8.12.2019
Opening from Wed – Sun 11.00 – 18.00
Graphic design: Marco Cassino
See you in Chiasso!!
13.09.2019
We are all going home
Time passes so fast, a year ago Cultinmov Chiasso, office of dicastero socialità della città di Chiasso, asked me if I wanted to start a project about eastern immigration in Chiasso.Since then I had the honour to meet people, trying to understand movements, lives, families, politics, geography, wars, trips and Europe, to change my point of view of Europe, Chiasso and finally my life, yes.
I started then the project We are all going home an artistic project that inglobes videos, recordings, collections of whatsapp images, trips, people… all that will open October the 5th in Chiasso (until December 5th) during the Bi Biennale dell’immagine.
I feel so lucky to have this opportunity and chance. So so lucky. Thank you Cultinmov Chiasso, thank you Chiasso. Thank you all
18.03.2019
Striated Space, installation by Stéphanie Baechler at the Spazio Lampo, Chiasso
New installation done for Spazio Lampo by Swiss artist Stéphanie Baechler curated by myself.So great to collaborate with such talented artists who brings new vision in our so little place. Thank you, again.
Graphic Design by Alfio Mazzei
13.02.2019
Technical wishes
Yes! This year too.
04.09.2018
Finally online and III!
After more than a year my website is finally online. Thanx for the amazing design of Ann Griffin and Nicolas Jeanmairet (Studio Rubic), the super amazing programmer Maxime Schoeni, and the patience and amazing work of my english supporter and translator Rebecca Meyer and Steven Hubbard (Chukster). Thank you!Celebrating this big step there’s a new video online: III, a music video I did for Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Paolo Spaccamonti.
18.04.2018
Dal mio romanzo inedito, installation by Laurent Krof at the Spazio Lampo, Chiasso
Almost done for the next exhibition I curate at the Spazio Lampo in Chiasso. Posters just printed!Graphic Design by Alfio Mazzei
08.03.2018
Andreas Gysin and Sidi Vanetti @ Spazio Lampo, Chiasso
A new opening at the Spazio Lampo!Curated by Robin Bervini.
07.10.2017
Opening of the Generale Consulate of the Kingdoms of Elgaland Vargaland @ Spazio Lampo, Chiasso (CH)
with Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggrencurated by Aline d’Auria
Elgaland-Vargaland è un progetto artistico del duo svedese Leif Elggren e Carl Michael von Hausswolff.
Autoproclamatisi re nel 1992 in contrapposizione alla monarchia svedese, Leif Elggren e Carl Michael von Hausswolff fondano i regni di Elgaland-Vargaland, KREV (KonungaRikena Elgaland-Vargaland ). Riprendendo le parole dei suoi fondatori, si tratta del “regno più popolato e raggiungibile al mondo, dato che si compone non solo del mondo fisico concreto e tangibile ma anche di territori digitali come pure di altri piani di realtà. Ogni volta che si attraversa un confine, ogni volta che si varca un nuovo stato mentale, come accade per esempio nel sogno, si visita Elgaland-Vargaland”. In altre parole KREV è quel vasto territorio che si trova tra due stati geografici, fisici, metafisici o mentali, metaforici o digitali (senza dimenticare neppure il regno dei morti). Quindi KREV è ovunque.
Aline d’Auria, settembre 2017
