"Forbidden Fruit" is a research on the narrative that results when the white cube space ceases to be a means of exhibition, but a stage that is designed and transformed to produce stories along with the artworks. The playfulness and the possibility of failure are at the heart of our curatorial process and of the invited artists’ practices. Therefore, we embrace the idea that the artworks we decide to present are not shown in their best light and we accept not to meet the white cube expectations.
Forbidden Fruit, one-day exhibition curated by niccolas (GR) & Yel K. Banto (CH) at PS:Communitism, Athens in June 2022
with Barbora Lepší (CZ/GR), Captain Stavros (GR), dakrya (GR), Juraj Černák (DE/CZ), Markéta Skalková (CZ), Nikos Tzoufas (GR), Soni (GR), Thanos Dedes (GR)
Graphic design and pictures by Yel K. Banto
Extract of the 16:00 minutes long silent video work presented in a loop at Cantina Social, Athens in July 2022 and the Literature House, Athens in July 2022.
EMPATHY is the result of a collaborative research that started in Athens 2022 with Hannah Doepke. Through the experimentation with a semi-transparent mirror foil we found an analogue procedure that allowed us to merge our bodies into a single one live and to experiment on the influence that we had upon each other.
On the left: picture of the rooftop projection at Literature House in Athens
on the right: documentation of the process
on the right: documentation of the process
Le Souper, performance, 15min, HEAD Geneva, January 2022
Material: 4 speaker, 2 subs, 1 audio interface motu ultralight mk5, computer, 1 contact microphone, 4 jack in/xlr out cables, 1 double jack cable.
Software and plug-ins: Ableton live 10, fracture, max Api SendsXnodes XY.
The sound produced by the high heels is recorded by the contact microphone under the table and is directly transmitted to Ableton were it gets distorted and modified by different effects. The surround panner make the sound turn constantly around the audience thanks to the four speakers placed in each corner of the room.
When The Curtain Falls The Show Does Not End, video clip, 10:44min, collective exhibition "C'era una volta la Pangea" currated by Associazione +41, Balerna, October 2021
Composition of distorted and reworked recorded sounds and IA produced images transitions.
When The Curtain Falls The Show Does Not End, sculpture, 4m x 18m x 4m, collective exhibition "C'era una volta la Pangea" currated by Associazione +41, Balerna, October 2021
Hello World!, performance filmed by Estelle Quarinno, Geneva, June 2021
Wing Don't Fit In The Suitcase, performed lecture of hidden poems, 20:00min,
HEAD Geneva, June 2021
HEAD Geneva, June 2021
Wings don't fit in a suitcase, costume for a performance, HEAD Geneva, April 2021
January Favorites, mix of many music influences, 38:44min, February 2021
Trouble Don't Last Always, installation, HEAD Geneva, January 2021
Costume Sculptures, installation performative, HEAD Genève, décembre 2020
Remainder of a performance, HEAD, Genève, October/November 2020
Leviathan, installation interactive, 400 x 1200cm, La Grange, août 2020
TUT, installation interactive pour un appartement, juillet 2020
TUT, installation interactive pour un appartement, juillet 2020
Rupture, vidéo, 2:56min, ECAL, Lausanne, mai 2020
Rupture 2, vidéo, 1:45min, ECAL, Lausanne, mai 2020
Unnamed for the Moment, projet de mémoire, 5 installations auto-interactives, ECAL, Lausanne 2020
Unnamed for the Moment, projet de mémoire, 5 installations auto-interactives, ECAL, Lausanne 2020
Fragmented Bodies, installation, 100 x 350 x 200cm, La Placette, Lausanne, Janvier 2020
Fragmented Bodies, Performance avec Emmelien Chemouny, 12:00min, La Placette, Lausanne, Janvier 2020
Performance et installation, Live par Weith, 100 x 100 x 250cm, 45:00min, Lausanne Space Dance Festival, janvier 2020
Les Amants, sculpture en résine et silicone, 3x 20 x 20cm, ECAL, Lausanne, janvier 2020
Layers, vidéo 2:35min, ECAL, Lausanne, décembre 2019
Inflatable, Installation gonflable et performance avec Clara Delorme, 200 x 2250 x 200cm, 15:00min, vidéo filmée à l'iPhone 6, Centre Culturel des Amériques Latines, Lausanne, novembre 2019
Performance en collaboration avec Tiago Gigon, 10:00min, Fesse-tival, Genève, septembre 2019
Chronomorphique, serie of sculptures, unanounced performances and a video that was shown on a tv screen in the flat. Lausanne, septembre 2019
The installation took place in a big scale project called Trace de Passages. The ephemeral collective composed of very diversified profiles intervened in an old building that was doomed to demolition. During three months, each contributor had invest a flat that was assigned to them.
1. Sculptures made of found objects, panties and polyurethane foam
2. Video, 5.15min, with Clara Delorme
TOTEM, installation, 0,5 x 0,5 x 4m, Electrosanne, ARSENIC, Lausanne, septembre 2019
COCOON, performance, 4:00min, Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Juillet 2019
COCOON, installation et performance pour le prix d'art visuel vaudois, 8 x 4 x 2m, 120:00min, Gymnase Auguste Piccard & Gymnase Chamblandes, Juin 2019
Performances avec le Collectif QULT pour les soirées queer Club Sandwich au Romandie à Lausanne
COLLB' VEVEYZAN X KEVIN BANTO
Bags made out of recycled micro-perforated tarpaulin.
Prints by Kevin Banto.
Production by Karim Akel.
Images Karim Akel, 2019
Bags made out of recycled micro-perforated tarpaulin.
Prints by Kevin Banto.
Production by Karim Akel.
Images Karim Akel, 2019
Time Research, performance en 3 actes en collaboration avec Stéphane Nabil et Dona Cetoute, 60:00min, Bleu Lézard, Lausanne, mai 2019
, impressions sur bâche micro-perforées, 100 x 150cm, Théâtre Sévelin 36, Lausanne, Mars 2019
Distorsion 1, flexible format performance, modified self-portaits printed on plastic and projected with an overhead projector, analog vjing by Asia Calabro and Nine Sager. Gymnase Auguste Piccard, Lausanne, janvier 2019
Autoportraits, Impression sur papier format international, Brotherfields, Lausanne, décembre 2018
Linea Corporis, Installation en collaboration avec Maelle Amiet, 100 x 100 x 230cm, cabine téléphonique, Vevey, décembre 2018
Tryptique, performance en 3 actes, 15:00min, Quartier privé du Flon, Lausanne, novembre 2018
Introspection, installation, 200 x 300 x 200cm, Espace Dem'art, Lausanne, novembre 2018
Les Dysmorphiques, installation, 400 x 2000 x 200cm, La Ligne Bleue, Lausanne, septembre 2018
/haʊt/, Installation, 200 x 200 x 300cm, Animai Festival, Vevey, mai 2017