about the experimental project space in Montreux
murmurcontemporary
murmurcontemporary is a non-traditional project space in Montreux, that transcends the boundaries of traditional art exhibition by immersing visitors in the dynamic realm of video art installations and site-specific works. murmurcontemporary serves as a vibrant community for artists to push the boundaries of visual expression and engage audiences in immersive experiences.
The site-specific installations serve as a canvas for artists to respond to and interact with the environment, creating a dialogue between the art, the space, and the community.
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murmurcontemporary name comes from the active interest in the experimentation, the exploration of the murmuration between sound and image, of the experimental artist and founder Ruxandra Mitache.
She use sometimes the term abstract colours, to inspire the experimental approach of the art that she create and want to promote.
murmurcontemporary is her studio, and also an experimental project space from Montreux, located very close to the central station, and very close to a well known alkaline spring from the town. The space is 60 m2, and it’s like a capsule, with very good acoustics and resonance of the sound and a good place for site specific installations and experimental video and sound projections.
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melting walls (volume 2)
23 Silent Films
accompanied by a Sound Installation
by Yanran Bi (Only the Glaciers Know)
Opening: 23 November 2024
5:30h pm doors, start 6 pm
and by appointment at:
murmurcontemporary@gmail.com
Participating Artists:
Alessia Lupo Cecchet, Andrei Dragomir, Anouk Sebald, Blanche the vidiot, Clementine Chapron, Dominic Angerame, Emilie Crewe, Étienne Lescure, Fanny Delarze, Hani Gimna, Iris Wildros, Jimmy Peggie, Kawon Lee, Levent Çetin, Maboart, Māra Zoltners, Matteo Campulla, Michael Betancourt, Milan Zulic, Nicolás Onischuk, Saman Haghighivand,
Till Langschied, Zsolt Gyenes
The selection of the moving image works of ‘Melting Walls - Volume 2’ was made to promote a suggestive dialogue with the sound installation of Yanran Bi, and the close environment in Montreux.
The invited artist created the sound installation (Only the Glaciers Know) in a residency in Iceland. She was inspired by the soundscapes of the glacial landscape, immersing herself into the environment, composing a distinctive sound installation with the specific resonances of the place.
In the exhibition from Montreux you will find two projections that will screen a diverse selection of video art projects of local or international moving image artists.
One projector will screen films that explore the deep interconnection between body and environment, reminding about the phenomenological dimensions of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and on the second projector there will be films with environmental elements in movement, ambients, that reminds about the themes present in Deleuze’s essay, Desert Islands, where islands symbolize isolation, creation, and the dual forces of emergence and destruction.
Deleuze speaks of islands as spaces born from a complex interaction between what surrounds them and their internal dynamics.
I think this concept finds resonance in the sound project of Yanran Bi (Only Glaciers Know), where glaciers like island exist in a state of both immense power and fragile transience.
They are both creators, shaping landscapes, and subjects of destruction, slowly disappearing under the pressure of global climate change.
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melting walls (volume 1)
24 moving image works
accompanied by a site specific work
by Protoplast collective
Opening: 6 April 2024
hours: 16 - 20h
Closing Exhibition: 4 May 2024
hours: 16 - 20h
or by appointment at:
murmurcontemporary@gmail.com
Participating Artists:
Andrea Leoni, Angelina Voskopoulos, Callum McDonnell, Christian Niccoli, Ellie Kyungra Heo, Flo Yuting Zhu, Jason Bernagozzi, Jennifer Cabral-Pierce, Jesed Moreno, Mary Rose McClain, Milan Zulic, Mirrored Fatality, Paulius Sliaupa, Pierre Yves Clouin, Pouria Kazemi, Protoplast, Ralph Klewitz, Riccardo Matlakas, Rui Yamaguchi, Scott Turri, Shon Kim, Tassia Camila Novaes Raimundo, Weston Lyon, Yentl Gijbels, Yoon Kyeong Yang
A journey through fiction and reality, merging international cinematic expressions with local artists' site-specific works.
"Melting Walls" volume one contains a selection of visionary moving image works exploring the fluid metaphor, trying to transcend linguistic and cultural boundaries. From Tokyo's streets to the hidden tunnels of US, these cinematic narratives paint diverse stories of our interconnected world. The work of the artist collective Protoplast is blending cultural elements with the environment illuminated by a mise-en-scène projection.
These installations serve as a metaphorical bridge, symbolising the dissolution of barriers and inviting reflection on identity, connection, and shared humanity in a fluid world.
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curated, hosted and selected
by murmurcontemporary
where is your safe space?
2 - 5 November 2023
The moving-image exhibition in Montreux aims to open a filmic dialogue about existential concepts, perceptual realities and human affects in relation to space - a space close to the heart, a safe space.
Discovered or hidden rhythms, leitmotifs, memories, fluid and transparent atmospheres, permeate vibrant visions, in the breath of the silent whispers of our eyes, finding inner lyrics, sprung from textured thoughts, murmurs, reflections of the mind, revealed in short or long exposures of time.
A space, a safe space is like a vivid organism, where we invoke creative, protective sensations, personal values, and the luminosity around us and within us, opening up to symbolic, ritualised gardens, metaphors for the e/motions of specific ambients.
Participating artists:
Ana Vujic & Herr Herrli, Ajmal Shifaz, Asa Desouza-Jones, Elsamina Musiq, Elsaida Musiq, Eliot Bessot, Eva Dimitrakopoulou, Emily Mary Whitaker, Hana Kokšalová, Irina Hrinoschi - sound by Meng Tian, Jozefina Vokrri, Katia Sophia Ditzler, Maresiy Ivashchenko, Marlène Pichler, Maria Zakaryan - sound by Kaizoku, Mola Clay, Nikita Raevski & Maksim Kushewskii, Teresa Leung, Eltsine Penado - sound by Ruxandra Mitache, Zorm Collective / Tesse Baardman, Jeff Sermon, Bo Verpoten.
