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PLATEFORME 10 - Place de la Gare 16
1003 Lausanne
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Free
On 24 and 31 December: 10am to 5pm.
Closed on 25 December and 1 January.
Access
CFF train station: 3 minutes on foot
Bus 1, 3, 21, 60: «Lausanne-Gare» stop
Bus 6: «Cécil» stop
Metro M2: «Lausanne-Gare» stop
+41 21 318 44 00
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Giulia Essyad employs digital technologies to stage and transform her own body, seeking to challenge the mechanisms of commodification that shape our relationship to desire within a society where advertising is omnipresent. Continuing her exploration of the relation between self-representation and inner life, she has transformed the MCBA Espace Projet gallery into an immersive installation that evokes the labyrinth of consciousness. New works are revealed along a winding path shaped by the gallery’s architecture, which imposes shifting moods throughout the space. Drawing on the commercial visual language of light boxes, Essyad contrasts the hyper-artificial aesthetic of her imagery with the depth of a spiritual search. This inquiry is also marked by a return to origins.
Raised in Lausanne, the artist reclaims the museum as a site rich in personal memory—one she visited often when it was still an abandoned industrial zone. The adolescent urge to romanticize mysticism is met here with a more measured distance, infusing the exhibition with a complex sense of longing—caught between nostalgia and aspiration, between what was and what remains ineffable and beyond our reach.
Winner of the 9th Gustave Buchet Prize, Giulia Essyad (*1992) lives and works in Geneva.
