Images Vevey: four exhibitions nestled in the station

Big end-of-year salvo for L’Appartement, Images Vevey’s art space which pulls out all the stops to show four totally different types of proposals in its interconnecting rooms and corridors. This 10^e exhibition session since the creation of the place in 2021 indeed shows four artists with interests that are difficult to compare.

The funniest, most direct and simplest? Alberto Vieceli surfs on “collectionitis”, this tendency to want to collect, preserve and classify everything. On “Pet Sounds”, the graphic designer’s typological method focused on music stars posing with a pet on the cover of their record. The Beach Boys bear a heavy responsibility in this project which borrows the title from one of their most famous albums where they appear on the cover with zoo goats…

Henri Dés’s dog

The artists brought together by Vieceli are not all as well known, but they are often funnier. Cats are beaten by dogs (Henri Dé from behind, Giorgio with a leash, Lennon in the forest or, funnier, Cat Stevens, wow!) but felines are also popular, especially in the Jackson family with a tabby Michael and a Panther Janet. Sheep, birds, dolphins are not spared and Alain Chamfort even places a rabbit on his country piano from “La danse c’est naturel”.

The rest is more specialized but is often worth the detour. For example, the “Gong Co.” project. by Christian Patterson. Or how a photographer buys a rotting grocery store, but still open, and documents its every nook and cranny. The Grand Prix Images Vevey 2015-2016 has become a fascinating book. Or even Debi Cornwall, Prix Élysée 2023, is discussed by her film “Pineland/Hollywood” where the audio recounts a deadly news story but where the images telescope more than 500 Hollywood sequences!

As for Sara De Brito Faustino, the winner of the Images Vevey x ECAL Prize deploys “A Home With No Roof”, a set of photographs that evoke the dysfunctional home in which she grew up. The young artist, who has just received the “new generation” prize from the PHMuseum 2024 Women Photographers Grant, modulates the scales, inserts herself into pieces that are too small or creates confusion, between photographic fiction and the reality of the pieces in which we discover his work. The artist almost hid certain works and did not hesitate to redo doors or radiators of L’Appartement to satisfy the scheduling of his exhibition.

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