Ruches
Aladin Borioli’s interest in beehives was passed down to him by his grandfather, a beekeeper. After training in visual arts at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art in Lausanne, and in anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin, since 2014 Aladin Borioli has been building up a vast corpus of photographs, videos, sounds and ethnographic material. His long-term project subtly blends artistic and scientific approaches, such as photography, architecture, anthropology, and ethology. He is publishing a book to coincide with Festival Images Vevey, compiling hundreds of archives to present a new history of beehives. This fascinating visual glossary traces the diverse contraptions humans invented for bees between 2400 BCE and 1852, the date when the “modern” beehive was patented. The artist chose this symbolic period to portray the creativity beehives incited before entering a more dormant state. Ruches portrays the millennia-old relationship between humans and bees, reminding us of the vital role these insects play in our shared ecosystem.
Ruches was awarded the Nestlé Grant from the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2019/2020.
In the context of this exhibition, Images Vevey and RVB Books will jointly publish the book Ruches/Hives.
Ruches
Aladin Borioli’s interest in beehives was passed down to him by his grandfather, a beekeeper. After training in visual arts at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art in Lausanne, and in anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin, since 2014 Aladin Borioli has been building up a vast corpus of photographs, videos, sounds and ethnographic material. His long-term project subtly blends artistic and scientific approaches, such as photography, architecture, anthropology, and ethology. He is publishing a book to coincide with Festival Images Vevey, compiling hundreds of archives to present a new history of beehives. This fascinating visual glossary traces the diverse contraptions humans invented for bees between 2400 BCE and 1852, the date when the “modern” beehive was patented. The artist chose this symbolic period to portray the creativity beehives incited before entering a more dormant state. Ruches portrays the millennia-old relationship between humans and bees, reminding us of the vital role these insects play in our shared ecosystem.
Ruches was awarded the Nestlé Grant from the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2019/2020.
This exhibition is the fruit of collaboration between Images Vevey and La Becque, an artists’ residence in La Tour-de-Peilz (Vaud) that encourages artistic projects exploring the relationship between technology, environment and nature. Aladin Borioli is one of the recipients of the Résidences EXECAL in La Becque in the summer of 2019, during which time he worked on the An Intimacy Machine project.
In the context of this exhibition, Images Vevey and RVB Books will jointly publish the book Ruches/Hives.
