A contemporary art center housed in a 17th-century building, La Ferme de La Chapelle alongside Villa Bernasconi, is one of two art centers managed by the city of Lancy. With five exhibitions of contemporary art each year, accompanied by various events, its mission is to support and promote culture for all.
Artist Jessica Decorvet investigates the landscape as an unstable concept where seeing implicates participation and representation transforms the world. The exhibition brings together drawings, textiles, ceramics and living plants to stage tensions between intense, almost vital wonder and cultural framing that distances the living.
Playing with scale from miniature objects to a monumental curtain, Decorvet unsettles assumptions: textiles become stained glass while ceramics verge on reliquary. The works evoke and question how perception and materiality shape our relation to place.
Opening: Tuesday 28 April, 18:00
Guided visit for non-French speakers that explores contemporary artworks while inviting participants to learn useful expressions and practice oral skills. The session examines visual themes and vocabulary in relation to perception and everyday conversation, and encourages active discussion, listening, and descriptive strategies. Suitable for beginners and advanced learners, as well as children and French speakers who wish to collaborate, the visit reveals how art can stimulate language learning and intercultural exchange. Guided tour for non-French speakers of Jessica Decorvet’s ‘Paysage impossible’ exhibition.
In French – Beginners and advanced students, children and French-speaking people welcome!
Swiss artist Jessica Decorvet presents a durational performance unveiling the work Néophytes, which evolves over the course of the exhibition. The live action engages a recurring motif in her practice: invasive plants, used to probe human judgments of good and bad in nature and to surface histories tied to capitalist globalization. Situated as a destabilized landscape, the project treats viewing as participation, suggesting that representation itself effects transformations in ecological and social relations.
Unveiling of the work 𝘕𝘦́𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘴, which evolves throughout the exhibition. Invasive plants, a recurring motif in Jessica’s artistic research, form a theme that unfolds throughout the exhibition. For the artist, they embody the human perspective on what is considered good or bad in nature and, above all, reveal an entire aspect of the history of capitalist globalization.
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