Contemporary Art in Vevey: Three prizes, three women on exhibition

If silence in a museum is more and more an obsolete rule of conduct, when entering the Jenisch Museum in Vevey, we experience this silence. Spontaneously. And – let’s dare it – under the influence of the monumental pieces of Anjesa Dellova, Anaëlle Clot and Noémie Doge, but also in their thoughtful measurement of the things of life, of nature. From the link. Binder. Duration.

In the pretext of the exhibition, the three artists have no particular connection, except that they work in the canton of Vaud and that they have just won one or other of the prizes of art that accompanies its contemporary scene, accompanied by a museum exhibition. The Alice Bailly Prize for the first two (2023, 2024), the Jacqueline Oyex Distinction (2024) for the last. A breath of fresh air for these talents. As much as an opportunity for visitors to enter their artistic worlds.

Anjesa Dellova doesn’t stop

Will there be an end to these “Lamentations” that painted Anjes Dellova (*1994), each time innervated by another tension, to form a wall of humanity? The thirty-year-old from Lausanne, who lets these wide-eyed beings emerge on the canvas and who accompanies the idea of ​​human fragility through gesture by rubbing her painted material, cannot imagine it. “It’s a way of resisting,” she says. Like his “intuitive” choice of vermilion monochrome, it is an attitude opening onto other emotions than just pathos. Winner of the Kiefer Hablitzel & Göhner Prize (2022), from the Stock Exchange Alice Bailly (2023), of the Leenaards Cultural Grant (2024), Anjesa Dellova was also presented at Art Genève 2024 by the Fabienne Levy gallery.

Noémie Doge between two times

It’s mimetic! We almost find ourselves opening our mouths and eyes as big as those that Noémie Doge (*1983) appears in these graphite drawings. Traced with the sense of detail of the ancients, with this taste for the construction of the image, this intention to make forms emerge from nothing, they have the art… but also the manner. Strangeness, even unease, infiltrate his reality, in this gap that separates the sheets of his diptychs. The space of deconstruction? Reconstruction? Born in Moudon, trained in Geneva, Amsterdam and London, Noémie Doge entered the collections of the Pully Art Museum, the Mudac in Lausanne, the Geneva Museum of Art and History and the Royal College of Art in London. Today Jacqueline Oyex Distinction, she received the Alice Bally Scholarship in 2018.

Anaëlle Clot in the confidence

Nature is more than a subject in the mural – and spiritual – journey ofAnaëlle Clot (*1988), she is in the matter. The artist works with pen and plant ink to convey his wonder and anxieties.

“At the start of this series, there is the urgent need to digest and put emotions on paper. Don’t implode. Fertilize ideas. The first traits are liberating. I draw and write, in black on white, the excitement of spring, the germinating seeds, the black earth, the swarming of roots and the dance of mushrooms. Exhibited in a number of contemporary art spaces, winner of the Alice Bailly Scholarship (2024)the Vaudoise d’Assens published “Germinations ruminations – Drawn journal” this year at art&fiction.

“Offer your art to the museum”

With green, as bright as a supercharged meadow, chosen to color the walls of another of Jenisch’s new exhibitions, that on the enrichment of collections, we are not far from the atomization of museum codes. Or perhaps the expression of an explosion of joy? Nathalie Chaix, director of the museum, has carried it within her since she heard it three times in a row, from three different artists… “It’s a gift! You can choose whatever you want.” This was well worth an exhibition. With a lord, that of the museum: the art of the line.

Deliberately animalistic like pages taken from the great book of nature, the drawings of the French sculptor Charles de Montaigu (*1946) open this procession of donations. With those of Lausannois Gaspard Delachaux (*1947), also a sculptor, we follow a whole world of chimeras that have come to settle on the sheet, fabulous, curious. Friend! The last room, that of Ticino artist Andrea Gabutti (*1961), vibrates, purely plant-based. In a language oscillating between the expressive power of flowers, leaves and their evocative power. (IMF)

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Florence Millioud joined the cultural section in 2011 out of a passion for people of culture, after having covered local politics and economics since 1994. An art historian, she collaborates in the writing of exhibition catalogs and monographic works on artists.More info

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