Controtempo

Multimedia and conceptual artist Olga Kisseleva has exhibited in the world’s most famous museums and Controtempo is her first solo show in Switzerland. Working mainly in installation, science and media art, Olga Kisseleva employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale art installations and interactive exhibitions. The approach to her work is much the same as a scientist’s. A discrepancy detected during a procedure or within the workings of a structure oblige her to formulate a hypothesis, in order to explain the complication in question, and wherever possible, to propose a solution to the problem. She then determines the skills necessary to pursue the relative study, and commissions the research. The paradigm of time, both tangible and impalpable, somehow virtual but crucial, addresses and challenges all of us.
Olga Kisseleva, a pioneer of media art that questions the impact of technologies and sciences on our lifestyles, highlights the paradoxes of time in a political, sociological and economical perspective, such has the leading thread underpinning her work for twenty years.

Controtempo gathers a set of works that extend the reflection of the artist over the concept of time, in particular on the influence of time in society environment and economy. For centuries, the complexity of time is been at the core of philosophical and scientific reflections and this exhibition shows some of the artist’s reflection on her investigation on the changes of modern society.