Pierre Vadi

Born in 1966 in Sion (Switzerland), he lives in Geneva.

This Swiss artist likes putting together make-believe geographical environments, fictional spaces which he makes with object-sculptures, either hyperrealist or of resin, various kinds of installations, maps and architectural interventions. Mental images, unknown kinds of meteorology, moonscapes which are as if vitrified, his art invites viewers into a revisited space-time frame.

With Hell is Chrome, Pierre Vadi  has taken over the whole Château d’Eau, and built his world inside it.
 

What does the festival’s subtitle “Here where I am doesn’t exist” mean to you?
First of all it made me think of that joke you could read on a Richard Prince picture:
“Two people meet in the doorway of a psychoanalyst.
-Hallo. Are you coming or going?
-If I knew that, I wouldn’t be here.”
I also thought it was a serious, possibly solemn title, and maybe pretentious too. It’s okay. Something about disappearance and invention. Building worlds. It’s a real title, with no obligations. It even inspires nothing; but it seems to permit everything.

What does art help you accomplish?
If accomplishing means completely finishing something, then nothing, “endless execution”, but time passes […] at breakneck speed.