For its 12th series of exhibitions, L’Appartement–Espace Images Vevey splits in two. One side hosts Lea Sblandano, winner of the 2024 IMAGES VEVEY × ECAL Award, who presents Neijuan, an installation exploring identities in flux, where reality slides into the virtual. The other side features Nova by Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer, a duo rephotographing scientific objects turned into poetic artefacts. On one side, digital experimentation, avatars, and connected emotions. On the other, the rigour of the laboratory, academic thought, and material memory. Two complementary approaches, confronting past and future, the tangible and the timeless, poetry and fantasy, each in their own way questioning how we see, know, and project ourselves into the world.

LES CHAMBRES

With their installation Nova, Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer take over the three rooms of L’Appartement with images from their evolving photographic series. Since 2009, they have documented scientific, historical, or educational artefacts, removed from contextand reimagined. The first room shows customs-confiscated objects, displayed as curiosities stripped of their original meaning. The second invokes the artists’ studio, bringing together academic models, books, and prism photographs. The third presents vanished museum pieces, cut out and turned into shadows of the past. The hallway features striking images manipulated physically and digitally. Like the sudden flare of an invisible star, Nova forms a fictional, domestic museum where the image acts as a fragment of memory.