Grégory Sugnaux
data romance
Gruyères Castle is inviting Grégory Sugnaux to occupy its rooms with a series of works created in resonance with the site. For his Data Romance exhibition, the artist from Fribourg has put the historic site through a computer software filter, offering a new and surprising interpretation that oscillates between facetiousness and surrealism.
Drawing on the immeasurable flow of images propagating on the web (anonymous photographs, stock images or memes), Grégory Sugnaux selects those that correspond to specific keywords and depicts them with virtuosity in his works. The ephemeral and fleeting imagery of internet culture is thus frozen on the walls of the medieval fortress, probing both our relationship with time and our frantic consumption of images.
Curator
Filipe Dos Santos
Opening
Thursday 10th March, at 6.30 pm
Grégory Sugnaux
Grégory Sugnaux was born in Fribourg in 1989. After attending the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre (ENSAV), he obtained a Bachelor's degree in visual arts from the ECAV (École cantonale d'Art du Valais) in 2013, followed by a Master's degree from the HKB (Hochschule der Künste von Bern) in 2017. He was awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel prize in 2015.
His work has been shown in numerous institutions, including the PasquArt center in Biel, the Kunsthalle in Berne, the Kunsthaus in Glarus, the Manoir in Martigny, the Fri-art center in Fribourg, and at the We Suisse exhibition in Besançon. He has also experimented in a number of Off spaces throughout Switzerland and abroad, including Wallriss in Fribourg, Hangar9 in Geneva, Lokal-Int in Biel and ZQM in Berlin.
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