Four in the morning. Snow on the road. One hour forty-five to Geneva.

Avant le départ Décembre ralentit. (English version) Les jours raccourcissent, les sons changent. De ma fenêtre, j’entends les derniers sons avant d’arriver en Grèce pour accompagner mon père : la rivière qui coule en contrebas de notre habitation. Assis sur le balcon, j’ai situé cette source double — un son de la rivière coulant depuis … Continued

Are you listening? The Why Andrea Valvini — December 2025 I’m leaving for Taiwan in early February 2026. Three months at the port of Kaohsiung, listening to how life resonates day and night in this place of perpetual repetition. This is a return — fourteen years after leaving the art world. In 2011, three collapses … Continued

Listening, Gesture, Memory Artistic Residency — Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2026 I’ll be spending three months in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (February–May 2026), listening to how life within and around one of the world’s largest container ports resonates across day and night. Early morning fish markets, cranes loading ships at dawn, voices calling across docks, machinery humming through the … Continued

Solitude accompanies creation — I am alone, facing myself. To remain there would be a bleak monologue, a caged bear pacing. But making work public becomes a source of life. It gives breath to what was thought in isolation, testing whether these thoughts hold weight against our deepest concerns — our hopes for a world … Continued