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• Exhibitions
  • Morelli Freud Holmes (2018-2019)
  • From Abdizuel to Zymeloz (2018)
  • The Belly of the Phoenix (2017)
  • Same Same But Different (2015)
  • Morgenröte, aurora borealis and Levantin… (2015)
  • Barbabietole e meringue (2014)
  • Helvetic Zebra (2014)
  • Smoking Up Ambition! (2014)
  • The Hacker Grail (2013)
  • JJR Pole Dance (2011)
  • Pour «Play Bach» (2010–2011)
  • L’intermédiaire (2009–2010)
  • God Doesn’t Play Dice, He Smoothes the Edges (2009)
  • Post Tenebras Luxe (2009)
  • Les Barbus (2009)
  • Talking Object HA (2008)
  • L’Ane & le Lion (2008)
  • Wunder Stanza (2007–2008)
  • Retourner sa veste (2005–2008)
  • Sur la paille (2004)

• Publications
  • PhD (2018)
  • Into Your Solar Plexus (2016)
  • In Pursuit of Unlimited Hospitality (2014)
  • I got a manicure (2013)
  • Post Tenebras Luxe (2009)
  • L’Ane & le Lion (2008)

• Lectures
  • Ego Teaching (2012)

• Movies
  • Our Last Sonata (2010–2012)
  • Les héritiers de la Comtesse (2009)
  • Peccato mistico/short (2009)
  • Fortuna Berlin (2005)

• Eternal Tour
  • Eternal Tour São Paulo (2012)
  • Eternal Tour Genève (2012)
  • Deserting Las Vegas (2011)
  • Eternal Tour Jerusalem (2010)
  • Eternal Tour Neuchâtel (2009)
  • Eternal Tour Rome (2008)

Eternal Tour
Neuchâtel

In 2009, invited by the CAN (Centre d’Art Neuchâtel) and the CCV (Centre culturel du Val-de-Travers), Eternal Tour focused on three main issues related to the history of the region:

1) the publication of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, partly claimed to have been published in Neuchâtel to avoid royal censure from Paris;
2) the figure of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his thought and his walks through Val-de-Travers where he spent 3 years;
3) the oriental exoticism that influenced people as diverse as Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds or Philippe Suchard and his chocolate industry and private minaret.

For this edition, Eternal Tour proposed a publication in a very popular form in the swiss part of Switzerland: the almanac. The book XZY is characterised by its transdisciplinarity and the freedom of its content, and is an essential part of the festival “happening”.

Background picture: Claire Fontaine, Palestine Occupied, courtesy Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv. Photo: Sully Balmassière.

Eternal Tour Neuchâtel 2009 website

Kader Attia, Big Bang, 2005. Courtesy Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris. Photo: Sully Balmassière.

Sylvie Fleury, YES TO ALL, 2009, courtesy the artist. Photo: Sully Balmassière.

Sylvie Fleury, Yes to all, white light, 2009, courtesy the artist. Photo: Sullly Balmassière.

From XZY, Eternal Tour 2009 publication. Design: Rollergirl.