ART & LIMINALITÉ
The Let’s Talk About series offers insights into Swiss Post’s art collection. This event focuses on digital visual worlds, materiality, and new perspectives on art and the present.
At a glance
Artists
Jean-Vincent Simonet
Date
Thursday, 16 April 2026, 6.30 p.m.
Guest
Claus Gunti
Location
Swiss Post Branch 1000 Lausanne 1 Dépôt
Host
Danaé Panchaud
Language
French
The participants
Jean-Vincent Simonet (artist, Paris and Zurich) in conversation with Claus Gunti (art historian and curator; lecturer at École cantonale d’art de Lausanne, ECAL); moderation: Danaé Panchaud (director Centre de la photographie Genève)
Jean-Vincent Simonet
Jean-Vincent Simonet (born in 1991 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, France; currently living in Paris and Zurich) takes photography far beyond its traditional borders. For his works, he uses digital images only as raw material, which he transforms in an alchemical process: he prints on unstable material, lets ink flow on plastic and manually manipulates the still-wet pigments. From this physical destruction emerge images of aesthetic excess, in which bodies, landscapes and technology are fused into complex worlds. In Simonet’s works, the dividing lines between photography and painting, between digital precision and analogue chance and between the real and the imaginary are completely blurred.
About the talk
In an interview with Claus Gunti, the artist provides an insight into these experimental working methods. Together, they examine how exploring media thresholds challenges our image perception and what new perspectives digital practices open up today. Gunti brings to the discussion his expertise from the ECAL research project Soft Photography, which studies the emotional impact of computer-generated aesthetics. The talk will cover everything from the surface’s haptic materiality to Simonet’s current interest in AI, the virtual worlds of computer games and the rapid circulation of transient images.
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