ECAL Skeuomorphic

Skeuomorphic

Suisse

2016ECAL

Skeuomorphic” is a body of work created by three ECAL photographers, Jacques-Aurélien Brun, Maxime Guyon and Jean-Vincent Simonet, and set designed with Marceau Avogadro and Anaïs Benoit Dignac.

An observational practice of the physical and contextual form of the photography medium has took place in the past year. Whether they record abstract visuals, re-appropriate commercial aesthetic discourse or playing with a whole delightful digitized chaos, the three artists here ended their process with the question of the persistently shifting modes of the photography media today. Their natural collaboration came in the investigation of physicality in photography.

The apprehension of the image as an object dissipate the initial narratives from the three distinct bodies of work, but also attempts to expand the visual experiment on the current extreme ubiquity context that undergoes this medium.   

About the artist

Jacques-Aurélien Brun (born in 1992, CH) is graduated from ECAL. He exhibited with the Prix VFG Nachwuchsförderpreis, in Winterthur, Basel, Stuttgart and Lausanne. In 2014 he won the Prix d’Encouragement of the city of Renens. In September 2015, he was shortlisted for the second time at Unseen Photo Book Award in Amsterdam.
jacquesaurelienbrun.com

Maxime Guyon (1990, France) graduated with high honors from ECAL in 2015. His work tends between the researches on the constant evolution of technological functions in our current society, and on the role of a photographer in a post-internet era. He has been part of several group shows since 2012 in Lausanne, Paris, Austin, Milano, Shanghai, Milwaukee, London, Brooklyn, New York, Los Angeles and Cincinnati.
maximeguyon.com

Jean-Vincent Simonet (1991, France) graduated with high honours from ECAL in 2014 before starting his career mixing editorial, fashion and experimental photography. His personal work was exhibited at Pla(t)form 2015 in Fotomuseum Winterthur. He had is first solo show at Foam in Amsterdam and won a Swiss Design Awards in Basel this year for his work “Maldoror”, he’s also part of the Foam Talent selection 2015. He lives and works in Lausanne.
jeanvincentsimonet.com

Scenography: Marceau Avogadro and Anaïs Benoit Dignac.