Les fileuses

“La fileuse” is a symbolic, universal, and timeless figure. The spinner composes a web, to the rhythm of seasons, civilizations, and myths, unfolding one after another. Actress and observer, she shields and protects discreetly. By means of her work, she obstinately links the precarious state of our earthly fate to the essential breath of life and to the movement of cosmic cycles. Vidya Gastaldon, Élie Autin and Nathalie Rebholz, each in their own way, spinners, fileuses... In her first solo performance Présage presented at ARSENIC in November 2022, as well as in her first solo exhibition Antichambre at Hamlet art space in Zurich in April 2023, performer and artist Élie Autin refers to the followers of Bacchus (“les bacchantes”). She is interested in the figure of Bacchus, portrayed as the god of wine, fertility, and ecstasy. At CIRCUIT, she presents an installation of dreamlike images, inspired by the Bacchae (tales of Bacchus), but also by her own stories, wishes and desires... In her work, Élie Autin is interested in the question of how to protect and why. With references to biblical figures such as Lilith and personifications of natural forces such as the sun, artist Vidya Gastaldon challenges conventional representations of gender and power. Influenced by her explorations of states of consciousness, Vidya Gastaldon treats the living world through her art as an extension of the body and consciousness. On the occasion of the exhibition at CIRCUIT, she will share a Kashmiri yoga practice open to everybody. The artist Nathalie Rebholz will present a new sound performance called Liquid-Fluid, a reworking of Shu Lea Cheang’s Fluidø. Our limits are questioned by means of a poetic text, slipping into a visual meditation over an immersive, hypnotic composition of water sounds and other liquids. Sunday 25.06.2023, 18:00 – 20:30 Kashmir Yoga with Vidya Gastaldon and sound performance by Nathalie Rebholz by inscription only [email protected] Support This exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of FCAC Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain Genève. Ville de Lausanne, État de Vaud, Loterie Romande, Fondation Ernst et Olga Gubler-Hablützel, Fondation Casino Barrière Montreux, Profiducia Conseils SA Courtesy Wilde Gallery Acknowledgements Yoav Admoni, Tamara Alegre, Julia Blain, Jonas Bühler, Delphine Coindet, Aïsha Devi, Charles Dubois, Nathalie Rebholz, Raphaël Rodriguez, the team of Wilde Gallery; the artists would like to thank the team of CIRCUIT