For its 12th session, L’Appartement is split in two. One of the apartments is occupied by Lea Sblandano, winner of the IMAGES VEVEY ECAL Award 2024, who presents the installation Neijuan. She explores shifting identities in a world where reality slips into the virtual.

The other apartment hosts Nova, by Lena Amuat & Zo  Meyer, a duo exploring the forms of knowledge through rephotographed scientific objects, transformed into poetic artefacts. On one side: digital experimentation, avatars, connected emotions. On the other: the rigor of the laboratory, academic thought, 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, how we know, and how we project ourselves into the world.

LES CHAMBRES
LENA AMUAT & ZOE MEYER
With Nova, Lena Amuat & Zo  Meyer take over L’Appartement with photographs of scientific, historical, and educational objects. Since 2009, they have been recontextualizing these items to reveal their strangeness. In three rooms: the first displays customs-confiscated objects, stripped of function; the second evokes the artists’ studio, with scientific models and prism-filtered images; the third presents vanished museum artifacts, transformed into shadow-like silhouettes. In the hallway, images are altered physically and digitally. Nova forms a fictional museum where the image becomes a fragment of memory.