Biography
Curator – CH
The sub-editor of the ISSUE journal and a teacher in Visual Arts, Sylvain Menétrey is also an independent writer, publisher and curator. He co-funded the art and photography periodical Dorade (2009-2013), worked at Fri Art, Fribourg’s Art centre (2013-2016), and co-directed the Art space Forde in Geneva (2016-2018).
Contents
03.03.2020
In my Head / Out of my Head
The HEAD–Genève is a school which obstinately refuses to found a school. The HEAD–Genève reiterates and generously demonstrates this principle in the varied pages of the two large volumes it is dedicating…
28.02.2020
Guinea pigs assemblages
Réflexions de Sylvain Menétrey sur la pratique d'Eva Zornio aka Affective Evaluation
Since 2018, artist and Work.Master graduate Eva Zornio has been developing a series of participative projects under the label Affective Evaluation, where she asks the audience to consider the question of empathy.…
03.09.2019
Montage. Une anthologie (1913–2018)
Le Département cinéma de la HEAD a consacré une anthologie de textes au montage cinématographique dirigée par Bertrand Bacqué, Lucrezia Lippi, Serge Margel et Olivier Zuchuat. L’ouvrage qui comble un vide éditorial…
23.06.2019
Water policy and poetics
A conversation with Aurélien Gamboni, Jean-Pierre Greff and Daniel de Roulet
Source of life or the « armed wing » of migration policies; object of contemplation for painters and object of fears for islanders; static or furious element, deceptive metaphor for commercial exchanges…
15.05.2019
Head to head I – Charlotte Laubard
On the run up to the Venice Biennale 2019, Sylvain Menétrey sat down with Charlotte Laubard, the curator of the Biennale’s Swiss Pavillon and the head of the HEAD’s Visual Arts’ department.…
07.02.2019
FashionHEAD
La célébration des dix ans de la HEAD – Genève se poursuit avec la publication d’un opus conséquent (408 pages) consacré à l’un des départements les plus en vue sur le plan…