VIVEMENT DEMAIN! - contemporary art TRIENNALE - BEX & ARTS 2023

As an artistic window onto current affairs, the Bex & Arts Triennial offers a space for reflection and experimentation to contemporary artists engaging with societal issues.

The 2023 edition, titled Looking Forward to Tomorrow!, brings together forty-five artists, designers, architects, musicians, performers, actors, ceramicists, and video artists to explore the relationship between humans and nature. The starting point is the exhibition site itself: the Szilassy Park. At once a natural setting populated with centuries-old trees and a landscaped environment shaped by human intervention since the 19th century, the park embodies the interplay between human and natural forces, an interplay that today has consequences across much of the globe. The Bex region reflects this duality: on one side, the raw, rugged Alpine landscape; on the other, agricultural, industrial, and inhabited zones.

Far from naïveté or denial, and in a world often dominated by alarming reports, twenty-four projects are presented along a path filled with questioning, irony, unease, but also hope, and perhaps even lightness.

Looking Forward to Tomorrow! is conceived as a serious invitation to confront, through artistic creation, a future that unsettles us, polarizes us, fuels nostalgia for imagined golden pasts, and feeds a pessimism that can become paralyzing.

14 May – 24 September 2023

Curation: Eléonore Varone

Video © Michael Hartwell

Photos © Gabriel Monnet

With:

Sophie Ballmer et Tarik Hayward
Rémy Bender et Basile Richon
Vanessa Billy
Notta Caflisch
Audrey Cavelius et Christophe Gonet
Simon Deppierraz, Eik Frenzel et Yves Dreier
Olivier Estoppey
Sonja Feldmeier
Aline Fournier
Fragmentin
Séverin Guelpa et Kunik de Morsier architectes
Lucas Herzig
Luzia Hürzeler
jocjonjosch
Sonia Kacem
la-clique
Marta Margnetti et Xénia Lucie Laffely
Yusuké Y. Offhause
Augustin Rebetez
Philipp Schaerer et Reto Steiner Camille Scherrer
Pascal Seiler
Moni Wespi
Katia Zagoritis