Villa Argentina
Suisse
2017Jury
The series Villa Argentina explores the relationship between Aruna Canevascini and her mother in the setting of the family house in southern Switzerland. Her mother is an Iranian artist. She lived a lonely life in Tehran and, in a way, she reenacted it in her adult life. This Villa Argentina presented here is the setting of a poetic universe, specifically staged for the camera. In this context of a shared solitude, this work explores a diversity of issues, such as family life, feminity, or migration issues.
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About the artist
Born in 1991, Aruna Canevascini recently gratuated in photography (2016) at the ECAL. Her work was shown in 2015 in Lausanne, Amsterdam and Düsseldorf. She received the 2016 VFG Nachwuchsförderpreis, a young talents prize. Her exhibition now tours in Zurich, Lausanne, Stuttgart and Bale.