Checkpoint 2 Exhibition

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Exploring the plight of migrants to Switzerland and migrants displaced. A collection of testimonies gathered in Renen and Dakar, culminates in a lively and rich collage of art works, and presentation of challenges faced.

We were brought in to help create a meaningful and original presentation of Swiss artists Audrey Cavélius and François Burland’s work produced in Dakar and in Renens during the first Checkpoint exhibition. We layered and super-scaled their imagery to enrich the migrant stories presented. Francesco Biamonte reworked his existing rushes of the migrant interviews to create an immersive soundscape supporting the stories presented graphically.

Obsessive and repetitive drawings of outsider artist Pape Diop are presented in large collages alongside an immersive video installation of him working in the Dakar Medina where he lives.

At the centre of the gallery, these stories are disrupted by the testimony of Eliseu, a young Angolan refugee in Switzerland. Two starkly contrasted black and white rooms, stage both his administrative hell and his rich artistic journey since his arrival.

Client
Ferme des Tilleuls, Renens
Scenography
Patrick Burnier, Anna Jones, Elfyn Round
Sound
Francesco Biamonte
Photography
J. Beton & P. Burnier

We tell stories with space

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ways we can change our behaviours and
work better.