Following Refaire le portrait, acte #1, the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève presents Lavorare, lavorare, lavorare, preferisco it rumore del mare*, an exhibition curated by Alfredo Aceto, artist currently in residence at the Centre.

This second instalment of the exhibition, provides an ironic and friendly response to Valentin Carron, Swiss artist and curator of the exhibition Work Hard, which is currently taking place at the Swiss Institute in New York. Aceto decided to appropriate the exhibition-as-medium as a nod to Carron, who was recently sued for plagiarism after having appropriated the work Aube by Italian artist Francesco Marino di Teana.

Aceto’s gesture of appropriation is however not total as, whilst employing a title which mocks Carron’s, he proposes an interpretation of the sculpture “Lavorare, lavorare, lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare” by the Italian artist Ugo Nespolo, which claims a penchant for idleness, discretion and lightness.

Using appropriation and misappropriation, this exhibition is a kind of homage to Work Hard, staging the possible reproducibility of the ecosystem of an exhibition.

Alfredo Aceto’s (1991, Turin, Italy) work is positioned in the space between reality and fiction, analyzing issues of history and collective memory. The very idea of ​​the exhibition as a medium is an issue at the heart of his reflections, aiming to create worlds that allow  for a sharing of the obsessions he pursues.

Paul Limoujoux’s (1989, Clermont-Ferrand, France) work disrupts the exhibition concept through the reappropriation and interpretation of everyday objects, thus reflecting on the identity of the latter.

In his recent works, Emanuele Marcuccio (1987, Italy) uses drawings and industrial production processes to describe his emotions, such as melancholy, linking them to our modern society.

After the great school of the street, Simon Paccaud (1985 Neuchâtel) trained as a carpenter before pursuing a Bachelor in Visual Arts at Ecal. His work revolves around positions linked to control  structures.