There’s nothing rhetorical about the question in the title of this article. Indeed, only a small minority of the HEAD – Genève’s Visual Arts graduates pursue a career as an artist, with…
While making us humans the most knowledgeable creatures on Earth, our contemporary modes of communication cut us off from a direct, embodied relationship with our environment. Questioning this anomaly in her Visual…
As part of a course dedicated to the Theory of Representation, first-year Bachelor’s students in Interior Architecture provided chromatic analyses, or analyses of the programming and utilisation, of Tik Tok, Instagram, Pinterest,…
During her studies, Eva Meister took on a number of student jobs as her family could not afford to support her. In her TRANS – master’s thesis, Meister, now an alumna, looked…
Favarger is a Geneva-based chocolate brand founded in 1826, well known for its avelines, a chocolate praline wrapped in gold paper. In 2021, the company commissioned the Visual Communication Department of HEAD…
Just as the pioneers of experimental cinema reused and distorted sequences from film footage, filmmakers are now drawing on the vast reservoir of Internet images to create new narratives. This feature looks…
From a fantasy aroused by some men′s underwear packaging, to the search for oneself in the depths of social media, to research into one′s own Iraqi origins; these three films created within…
Louise Jarrige-Le Berre shows what is radical in tenderness – from the violence of a tenderness that is denied, to the tenderness of a protecting friendship, to that of a garment that…
How to continue producing, as an artist who belongs to a social group perceived as a minority? Behind the current openness of art institutions to so-called minorities, there are a number of…
In contemporary art, migrants are mostly represented from a dramatic angle. The denunciation of their fate once they have arrived in Europe, the risks of crossing the Sahara or the Atlantic, and…