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Anaïs Wenger

Anaïs Wenger
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Just as Zelda Fitzgerald embarked on an intensive ballet career at the age of 27, Anaïs Wenger decided to change her lifestyle during her residency at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. From February to April, the 4th floor residence is moved to the Vernets skating rink some 600 meters further on, on the other side of the Arve.

Skating rinks, like swimming pools, embody the artificiality of sites designed to reproduce, control and transform the use of natural spaces: petrified landscapes, surrounded by terraces. At the rink the water is frozen and the bodies become lighter in the horizontality of a continuous movement upon the frozen surface. Slipping is the first affordance of ice. The second is to break.

Following the narrative curve of a character who seeks to escape its condition by clinging to a dream, there is a hope of being, of becoming someone else. By getting dramatically involved in a discipline in constant search of her next best talent, Anaïs Wenger plays the game of spectacularizing the artist at work who is asked to be both identifiable and unexpected, visible and mysterious, efficient and authentic.

Let’s hope she will be able to take up her own challenge because, as her coach has already warned her: “The more you know about the triple axels, the more complicated it gets!”

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Visit the 5th floor The virtual exhibition space of the Centre

Visit the 5th floor
The virtual exhibition space of the Centre

Visit the 5th floor
The virtual exhibition space of the Centre

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