From September 25 to November 1
Rolex Learning Center
Opening exhibition:
on September 24 at 5:30 p.m.
Bringing plants in the Rolex Learning Center’s mineral structure. It is Virginie Otth’s photographic project. The artist placed, in front of two windows of a patio, images of caves and water where humid and proliferating vegetation can be observed. Like a screen, these two photographs, half opaque half transparent, compose a green oasis that transforms our perception of space. A garden lives on the premises.
On the same hill of the Rolex Learning Center, an object set up on a tripod invites visitors to new perspectives of the building. Virginie Otth has built a device inspired from the model invented by the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi to represent a structure in perspective. She suggests a double vision: on a view of part of the Rolex Learning Center is interposed a photography of nature. Once again, the building’s perception is disrupted by this vegetal intrusion.
The work of Virginie Otth explores multiple photographic dimensions: different techniques, prints, optics, and the history of photography. The artist also questions the perception and particular relations between the eye and the brain. Her intervention at the EPFL stages this questioning, centering it on appearance and illusion (locate nature in architecture) and on the representation of a space (how do we represent in two dimensions an architecture in three dimensions).
Virginie Otth studied at the School of Photography in Vevey and obtained her Master and the Cantonal School of Art in Valais (ECAV). She currently teaches at the High School of Art in Geneva (HEAD). She lives in Lausanne.