The Festival

From 5 to 27 september 2020
Unexpected. Le hasard des choses

Most important visual art biennale in Switzerland, the Festival Images Vevey proposes every two years an exclusive photography exhibition concept on façades, in parks, indoor exhibitions in unusual venues, and joint ventures with people who ensure Vevey’s status as a ‘city of images’ all year round.

Entirely free of charge, Festival Images is a true open-air museum as well as a quality platform for national and international artists. Held every two years for a period of three weeks, it enables tens of thousands of visitors to discover the best in contemporary photography.

Curatorship & Scenography: 
Stefano Stoll, Raphaël Biollay, in collaboration with Laura Brenni

Artists:
Refik Anadol, Beni Bischof, Christian Boltanski, Aladin Borioli, Brodbeck & de Barbuat, Alain Bublex, Juno Calypso, Julian Charrière & Julius von Bismarck, Edoardo Delille & Giulia Piermartiri, Jean-Marie Donat, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Alina Frieske, Peter Funch, Stephen Gill, Sébastien Girard, Hans Gissinger, Yann Gross Arguiñe Escandón, Duy Huáng, Teresa Hurbart Alexander Birchler, Benoit Jeannet, Vincent Jendly, Lebohang Kganye, Mario Klingermann, Kensuke Koike & Thomas Sauvin, Kublaiklan, André Kuenzy, Jack Latham, Lei Lei, Andrea Mastrovito, Jeff Mermelstein, Stephanie Montes, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Gloria Oyarzabal, Abraham Poincheval, Kristine Potter, Robert Pufleb & Nadine Schlieper, Stephen Shore, Dayanita Singh, Matt Stuart, Batia Suter, Hayahisa Tomiyasu, Penelope Umbrico, Alberto Vieceli, Annie Wang, CEPV, Gaia Baur, Mehdi Benkler & Emilien Colin, Celine Burnand, Maurice Schobinger.

Ke Sale Teng, which will be unveiled on saturday 5 september at Vitrines du Rivage in Vevey as part of Vevey Images Festival.

For this new site-specific work, realised in collaboration with the Festival, Kganye presents an ambitious installation, with an animation film and five dioramas, where silhouettes of her family have been cut out as for shadow puppetry. They come to life to tell the story of the everyday reality of a generation the artist hardly knew. In general, family photo albums are a series of snapshots that have been chosen and arranged to construct a partial narrative that will always be incomplete. According to Kganye, these images go beyond a simple testimony of past events: They are a medium for projecting our own memories and those passed on to us, and also a space for reinventing our own story.

This year's Vevey Images Festival, curated by Stefano Stoll and Raphaël Biollay is inspired by the phenomenon of chance. Festival Images Vevey has set itself the goal of bringing together works by artists who give pride of place to the unexpected, the unpredictable role of fate and the randomness of things.