Photo credit : Romain Keller

Myriam Ziehli

Artist

Born in Morges in 1989, she lives and works in Lausanne (Switzerland).

Through the gaze, her work tends to fabricate rebellious filiations in the world in order to corrupt the normative relationships and dominations perpetuated by white patriarchal capitalist Western society. Through the prism of radical and intersectional ecology, and through her photographs, the artist invokes a gentle relationship to attention and attempts to nurture affects and detect tree-like ramifications without genealogy. In her work, she would like to invoke ponds, puddles, peat bogs, a sinuous place, snaked by water, where human and non-human communities cohabit. She’s looking for a meeting place where care is taken, where attention is created, where we lie down to dream. Between amiexs and adelphs who think about the world, break down normative patterns, create emancipating scenarios, create desirable climates, give strength and love. Patching stories, picking up stories, searching for stories, digging up stories to breathe new horizons.

In addition to photography, she calls upon the tools of performance, knowledge transmission, cooking, gardening, curation, scenography, radio and DIY books for her practice. After studying photography (CEPV, Vevey) and at university (art history, anthropology, Lausanne, Neuchâtel), she joined the Urgent Paradise art space in Lausanne in 2016. In this space, she invests herself within the team and with guest artists in the work of exhibitions (urgentparadise.ch), radio programs (unperfectradio.ch) and issues of the magazine Usure Presse (usurepresse.ch) to propose a space for imagination, freedoms and political reflections based on art. In addition, with artist Stéphanie Rosianu (srsrsr.noblogs.org), they regularly work on a multitude of projects: podcasts, exhibitions, gardens, zines, library.