inMEMORIAM

The inMemoriam initiative led by the Inartis Foundation offers Analix Forever and many others the great opportunity to showcase, in the gorgeous architectural and scientific environment of Campus Biotech, the works of nine artists who have been taking advantage of the lockdown to create. Artists often need to shut off, to tear the curtains, to isolate, to dig in themselves, alone, recluse, in their own world and their splendid solitude, in order to find their deepest inspiration. For many artists – to put aside those who need a public, the actors, the musicians, the performers – the lockdown has been an open window to themselves and to create “in depth”.

The seven video artists of the Video Room all invented new works.
Janet Biggs (USA) worked in collaboration with remote artists or scientists, combining her own private experiences with artificial intelligence in a most poetic way. Arts At CERN-IARI Collaboration (which includes Janet Biggs) also created during the lockdown an ongoing artistic, scientific and futuristic transdisciplinary project that employs quantum physics. Dana Hoey (USA) created a novel chapter of her exploration of gender: Pilgrim, Puritan, Whore, a story within History, taking place at her home with her son and his girlfriend as actors – or how to get around lockdown. Véronique Caye (FR) filmed the Horizon. Frank Smith (FR) asked friends to film from their window… Éva Magyarósi (HU) animated The last Days of Qana – our last days? Ali Kazma (TR) mounted his film Noha’s Arch – if everything is going to disappear in some form of tsunami, let’s save ART! Mimiko Türkkan (TR) has become a poet during lockdown, exploring the links of our consciousness with waters – from Lake Baikal to Geneva, rushes taken before lockdown.

Marios Fournaris, during the lockdown, has been mourning the birds. Looking at the splendor of Lake Léman, his Birdcage is empty. The birds are gone. The books remained, to tell us the stories of remote times, when birds and humans were free.

Finally, in the underground of Campus Biotech, were the architectural structures tell us about industry, Alexandre D’Huy (FR) reminds us that while we were secluded, war was going on. War is still going on. Ignoring any sense of humanity, ecology and future, war is going on. We don’t want to know, we don’t want to see. Alexandre D’Huy shows us – no corpses, no battles – but the products of industry as used in war.

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Campus Biotech
Chemin des Mines 9 – 1202 Genève

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