Catherine LEUTENEGGER, MOTEL
Exhibition from january 27 to march 24 2012
The young photographer from Lausanne Catherine Leutenegger (*1983) opens the 2012 exhibition program of the gallery Kissthedesign with two series produced between 2003 and 2004 – still unpublished – exploring the topic of the motel in the swiss landscapes.
Her photographs let us feel the kind of uncanny, David Lynch produces in Lost Highway or Twin Peaks. Though we are not in the United States, we are far away from the large areas of Los Angeles, Washington or Texas as depicted by Wim Wenders. Catherine Leutenegger conveys the american and strongly cinematic charged world of the motel in our quiet swiss reality. The photographer brings us to the periphery of citys, close to the cantonal roads of the french part of Switzerland, in search of these strange atmospheres of the films noirs that impressed her photographic language.
BIOGRAPHY
Catherine Leutenegger *1983, graduated from the ECAL in Lausanne (BA & MA in visual communication and photography), lives and works in Switzerland.
She is the recipient of numerous award like among others, the Manor Cultural Prize (2006), two Swiss Federal Design Grants (2006 and 2008), an artist residency in New York (2007) and in 2008 the Raymond Weil International Photography Prize. Her work has been exhibited in Switzerland and internationally in galleries and museum like a.o in Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Museum für Gestaltung und Museum Bellerive Zürich, Bieler Fototage, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Aperture gallery New York, Carla Sozzani gallery Milan, etc
