L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey
About
L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey is the permanent showcase for Images Vevey’s activities. L’Appartement is located in the main hall of the Vevey train station, on the 2nd floor. This atypical and ideally located place, today transformed into an art gallery, was formerly used to house railway workers. This art space hosts around fifteen artist projects and exhibitions per year, free of charge. It provides a link between two editions of the Biennale Images Vevey and helps to keep the “Vevey ville d’images” label alive throughout the year.
Days and opening hours
L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 2pm to 6pm.
* Closed on December 25–26 and January 1–2
Main hall of Vevey SBB station, 2nd floor
Place de la Gare, 1800 Vevey
Free admission
On the right as you enter Vevey station, take the stairs or elevator to the 2nd floor exhibition area.
Phone : +41 76 815 76 15
Currently
Winner of the 2023 Images Vevey × ECAL Award, Sara De Brito Faustino recreates the interior of the appartement of her childhood creating an intimate and theatrical mise en abyme. Alberto Vieceli collected over 300 vinyl record sleeves on which artists and animals, both domestic and wild, pose together, presented thourgh an installation that reveals the special place that this quintessential vintage object occupies in our homes. Debi Cornwall revisits the Hollywood dramas and B-movies of the last fifty years and provides a different perspective on the United States in an experimental short film presented in the home cinéma of L’Appartement. Through a series of photographs taken over a period of twenty years, the laureate of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2015/2016 Christian Patterson unveils the interior of a bankrupt family-run grocery store in the southern US, where groceries, practical items and household goods used to be sold piled on the shelves.
LES CHAMBRES
Sara De Brito Faustino
A Home with No Roof
A Home with No Roof is a series of photographs in which Sara De Brito Faustino depicts the dysfunctional home of her childhood. Using models and self-portraits, she reconstructs the interior of her house, haunted by her own sometimes painful memories. Winner of the 2023 Images Vevey × ECAL Award, the project explores the tension between familiarity and the strangeness of the ordinary. Through an interplay of scales and textures, each room has been meticulously designed to reflect the principle of her images within the space and accentuates the confusion between reality and its reproduction. The project reveals both the artist’s vulnerability and her strength of emancipation thanks to the playful and expressive potential of photography.
A Home with No Roof
2023–2024
Prix Images Vevey x ECAL 2023
Netherlands / Portugal (1999)
A coproduction of Images Vevey and ECAL
LE CINEMA
Debi Cornwall
Pineland/Hollywood
What is at stake in a militarised country where truth blurs into fiction? Made in 2021, Pineland/Hollywood combines over 500 sequences taken from some 200 Hollywood productions over the last fifty years. Starting with a roadside checkpoint sequence, this experimental short film develops a narrative from two points of view in which discerning truth from falsehood becomes crucial. By skilfully linking together extracts from crime, action and courtroom films, Debi Cornwall encourages us to rethink how these fictionalised stories of real state violence are packaged for our consumption as entertainment. Pineland/Hollywood condemns the police violence, injustice and systemic racism that pervade American society.
Pineland/Hollywood
2021
États-Unis (1973)
Film: 10 min 30 s
LE COULOIR
Alberto Vieceli
Pet Sounds
Pet Sounds is a series of vinyl covers featuring musicians posing with animals. Alberto Vieceli collects 320 record sleeves of all styles. Brigitte Bardot and her cat Michael Jackson with a tiger: the portraits are as whimsical as they are touching. Artists often pose with their pets, adding a personal dimension. Highlighting their similarities and the commercial strategy of the labels, Vieceli also reveals a surprising photographic genre that blends animal imagery and glamorous portraiture. Aimed at music lovers and enthusiasts of vernacular imagery, the installation offers a “dog-eat-dog” experience.
Pet Sounds
2021–2023
Switzerland (1965)
Pet Sounds, animals and musicians on record sleeves, 2023, everyedition (CH)
LE SALON
Christian Patterson
Gong Co.
Gong Co. is a monumental memento mori about the disappearance of a family-run grocery store in the American South. In 2003, Christian Patterson discovered this Mississippi shop, appearing as a unwitting time capsule filled with expired products. The photographer spent twenty years documenting the slow deterioration of this shop, which was closed in 2013 and stripped in 2019. Alternating between on-the-spot and studio shots, trompe-l’oeil collages and handwritten notes, Patterson meticulously recreates every last detail of the shop. Awarded the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2015/2016, Gong Co. took shape as a book-object and becomes both a testament to a bygone era, an outdated representation of twentieth century America, and a personal testimony to impermanence.
Gong Co.
2003–2023
Grand Prix Images Vevey 2015/2016
Gong Co., 2024, Éditions Images Vevey (CH) & TBW Books (US)
Voted best book at Paris Photo 2024 by « Il Giornale dell’Arte »
Pre-order a copy (Delivery from mid-December)
Éditions Images Vevey (Europe & UK)
TBW Books (USA & Japan)
