A place that casts its own shadow over the tranquilized will
Swiss Art Awards & Swiss Design Awards•Jun 16, 2025 — Jun 22, 2025
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Paul Paillet’s installation comprises two paintings on moulded and mounted paper along with two cast-aluminium hanging lamps. This is an enclosed place, seemingly turned in on itself, in which the representation of the domestic space meets a sense of floating, a flight from the world. The human figure appears like a will-o’-the-wisp, caught up in a convulsive dance on the smaller image, seemingly hollowed out and exhausted to the side of the larger one. The colours veer between the delicacy of a greyish pastel and neon tints of almost chemical intensity, accentuated by glaringly white and almost dazzling artificial lighting. The jury was impressed by the precision of Paul Paillet’s installation and his approach of working in two registers at once without favouring either, drawing on both the lived experience of addiction and an almost sociological evocation of it.
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A place that casts its own shadow over the tranquilized will
Swiss Art Awards & Swiss Design Awards•Jun 16, 2025 — Jun 22, 2025
Press Release
Paul Paillet’s installation comprises two paintings on moulded and mounted paper along with two cast-aluminium hanging lamps. This is an enclosed place, seemingly turned in on itself, in which the representation of the domestic space meets a sense of floating, a flight from the world. The human figure appears like a will-o’-the-wisp, caught up in a convulsive dance on the smaller image, seemingly hollowed out and exhausted to the side of the larger one. The colours veer between the delicacy of a greyish pastel and neon tints of almost chemical intensity, accentuated by glaringly white and almost dazzling artificial lighting. The jury was impressed by the precision of Paul Paillet’s installation and his approach of working in two registers at once without favouring either, drawing on both the lived experience of addiction and an almost sociological evocation of it.
