Adrien Comte | LIF Lectures 2023-2024
LIF
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APRIL 22ND 2024
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COMTE/MEUWLY cultivate their capacity to be surprised and fascinated by unexpected encounters and discoveries - through meticulous observations of everyday life, exciting experiments, productive failures, and enlightening prototypes. Based on these observations and experiences, projects are developed as narratives, without really knowing how or where it ends. They do not aim at revealing the grandiose, nor the sublime. They are assemblages of characters, scenes, objects, places, and phenomena: anchor points whose beauty emerges from their scrupulous combinations, from their reciprocal interactions. It is about making the most of what is already there, and highlighting opportunities: a subjective interpretation of the situations as found, by a careful selection of qualities and potentials. It turns out that each project detaches from any formal or stylistic research, and becomes rather an experimentation on the world that surrounds us, the general frenzy, the formalities of the administration, the reality of the standards in force: a mean for questioning and reinventing. Everything produced is considered a project, regardless of scale or medium. They all come together in a non-hierarchical narrative, provoking unexpected encounters of fragments, producing new stories, and leading to future experiments.
The studio was founded by Adrien Comte and Adrien Meuwly in 2017, and is based between Zurich and Geneva.