ECAL x Jean Paul Gaultier: Smells Like Queer Spirit

ECAL x Jean Paul Gaultier: Smells Like Queer Spirit

"Smells Like Queer Spirit" at Musée des beaux-arts du Locle - an exhibition created in collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier by third-year Bachelor Photography students, under the direction of Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb (Novembre magazine).  

In the 1980s Jean Paul Gaultier overturned dress codes and showed the porous boundary between masculine and feminine. The fashion designer playfully reversed roles, overturned gender and designed silhouettes that combined masculine sensitivity with feminine power. When they were launched, the brand’s perfume bottles also broke with the androgynous fashion of the 1990s. Now iconic, these served as the starting point for photographic exploration by students of the Bachelor in Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. For this research project directed by Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb – under the watchful eye of Claude Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, consultant LGBTQIA+ – the photography class questioned the human body and its representations. The images created in 2021 by the 12 students relate to themes of pride and tolerance. These works show that commitment to a more inclusive society also relies on images.

A publication, co-edited by ECAL x Jean Paul Gaultier x Novembre and designed by Baptiste Gerbelot Barillon & Jean Marques, is also being published to coincide with this exhibition.

 

STUDENTS
Dominique Bartels
Julie Corday
Diego Fellmann
Florian Hilt
Samara Krähenbühl
Angèle Marignac-Serra
Lisa Mazenauer
Marvin Merkel
Inès Mermoud
Basil Pérot
Yolane Rais
Camille Spiller

ASSISTANTS
Matthieu Croizier
Antoine Martin
Yul Tomatala

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday 4 February at 6pm

EXHIBITION AT MBAL
From 5 February to 24 April 2022

OPENING HOURS
Mon-Sun, 11am-5pm

 

First Sunday of the month free

 

ADDRESS
Rue Marie-Anne-Calame 6, 2400 Le Locle

https://www.mbal.ch

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Repro: ECAL/Camille Spiller & Basil Pérot & Angèle_Marignac-Serra
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Repro: ECAL/Camille Spiller & Basil Pérot & Angèle_Marignac-Serra
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Repro: ECAL/Camille Spiller & Basil Pérot & Angèle_Marignac-Serra
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ECAL/Florian Hilt & Basil Pérot
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ECAL/Samara Krähenbül & Diego Fellmann
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ECAL/Angèle Marignac-Serra & Camille Spiller
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