At the heart of it all

At the heart of it all is an exhibition summoning the flesh, marks on the skin, the representation of the wound, as well as the scratch as a form of writing. Sabrina Biro and Odino (ᛟᛞᛁᚾᛟ) have created a series of photographs, sculptures and murals especially for this exhibition. Brutal and at the same time seductive, the works of these two artists question the fascination we can have with death and its representations. The vanities depicted in the history of Western art, namely images representing bones or any object having a direct link with death, had different meanings but converged on the same idea. No matter what our social class, knowledge, identity or wealth, we will all end up in dust. Our relationship with death has developed in the last decades with the cinema and the series. From a philosophical reflection, our eye has turned to an attraction for the organic, the sensational. Sabrina Biro and Odino illustrate this semantic and aesthetic shift each in their own way. From Memento mori to gore, At the heart of it all offers the public a sensory experience. Lausanne-based artist Sabrina Biro, a taxidermist by training, recovers useless remains from the Cantonal Museum of Zoology in Lausanne. She then works on this material, bleaches the bones, decorates them or transforms them. The intention is to retain something, a bit like photography does, to keep an individuality, a trace of the living. She tattoos texts on pig's ears, marks, traces, appropriates flesh that does not belong to her, tries out tracing machines. Sabrina Biro maintains a particular relationship with the living. Soft Iconoclasm, she plays with our ideas of death and, especially, on the dispossession of our carnal envelope. For his part, the Italian artist Odino, inscribes his paintings in the post graffiti, anti-style or even post vandalism currents. Started in 2020, this pictorial project has expanded beyond northern Italy. Distanced from the hip hop culture of classic graffiti, ᛟᛞᛁᚾᛟ's paintings feed on the sharp and pagan aesthetics of black metal accompanied by the surrealist vision of Scandinavian mythology. Three-dimensional and monumental, the energy deployed by the artist to create translates the experience of excess.