LAURE FEDERICONI

Laure Federiconi (1994*, Lausanne, CH) is a visual artist, sound artist and author. She discovered poetry with an old anthology of French poetry at the age of 10. Since then, she has tried to keep writing at the centre of her visual and sound work. In her installations and sculptures, she questions learning through play, using the absurd and the notion of repetition to thwart authoritarian forms and structures. She mixes poetry with documentary, and the enigmatic with the critical. She looks for the playful in the interstices, bypasses the spectacle and is enamoured of the deceptive, the almost normal, the false peaceful.

2023, awarded the City of Lausanne's grant for literary creation
2023, awarded the Prohelvetia literary grant
2020-2023, Bachelor's degree in visual arts HEAD Geneva

She has taken part in group exhibitions in Switzerland. She also takes her synthesizers on board as much as possible for live sound performances abroad.

Artist Statement

C’est un rendez-vous très important, un mercredi. Tôt, à jeun. Rectangle délimité de moquette, une boîte à jeu en haut à gauche, des plots éparpillés et un boulier. Je m’installe au centre, empoigne un cube et un plot en forme de triangle (on me regarde, je ne dois pas décevoir). J’approche la forme du cube, du bout des doigts. Il y a un triangle percé dans le cube, un carré, un cercle, une étoile. Je mime la concentration. On me regarde. Je ne m’amuse pas. Je sens une attente se cristalliser – je ne lève pas les yeux. Je sais qu’ici, je dois jouer. Nous avons vingt minutes d’avance, peut-être six restantes. Je bouge le triangle très lentement, une porte s’ouvre. Le médecin fait signe à la mère, qui fait signe à l’enfant.

What was just a morning of routine check-ups turned into a dizzying experience. Watching yourself do, watching yourself be, watching yourself play. I remember the expectations, the latency, my desire to make a spectacular gesture in a closed system that had already been decided.