AiRArtist in Residence

Chretzeturm

Ariane Epars reinterprets objects, places or structures that have become prisoners of their historical past in a contemporary and sculptural way. She is particularly interested in the relationship between art and architecture. Thus she has realized numerous interventions in the context of buildings. The works depart from a specific place, question its identity, its character and its history and provide a clarifying counterpoint. In a gesture of repair that sometimes extends to destruction, the artist removes rather than adds. She exposes lines, restores or updates functions, liberates spaces and summarizes their meaning.

Ariane Epars was born in Pompales (Vaud) in 1959 and lives in Cully (Vaud). She studied at the Ecole supérieure d'art visuel (today: Haute école d'art et de design HEAD) in Geneva and worked in Hamburg for eight years after completing her studies. The visual artist has received several prizes, including the Manor Culture Prize, Lausanne, in 1996 and the FAS Prize of the Association of Swiss Architects in 2014. She was a member of the advisory commission of the Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain, Geneva, from 2006 to 2010. From 2008 to 2023 she worked as a lecturer in the preparatory course at the Ecole de Design et Haute Ecole d'Art (EDHEA), Sierre. She has realized exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst Munich, the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, among others. Work residencies have taken her to the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas (2003), the Fondation Camargo, Cassis and Cipm, Centre international de poésie, Marseille (2020).

Further information
http://www.arianepars.ch/