While screens invade our lives and images dematerialise in a virtual ‘cloud’, Simon Rimaz and Abigail Janjic propose to put material at the centre of their work. At the Ferme de la Chapelle they explore the phy­sical and abstract reality of images, their ways of appearing and their dissemination. The Latin term partes extra partes leads us to a philosophical questioning of the structure of the world and those that live in it, on the opposition between fragmented nature and the disunity of things, and the concepts of harmony and cohesion. What ensues from this, notably, is the capacity for transformation of the material and the images, which then take on a perceptible and concrete form in the exhibition.

Simon Rimaz is a photographer who doesn’t produce traditional photographic shots. Emphasising a vision that is periphe­ral to the lens, his visual work combines abstract and figurative elements, and asks questions of the mechanisms of image cap­ture and the documentation of reality. More than just the ‘subject’, Rimaz is interested in describing the edge of the image or the off-camera. Abigail Janjic creates environments where the second dimension fills the physical space. Often changing form, the images she paints, scans, cuts out or prints appear as a constantly moving flux. In a coloured profusion of forms and materials, her artistic aesthetic borrows as much from the world of pop and advertising than from historical abstraction. Her works emerge from many different cross-pollinated processes, that she subjects to elements taken from reality, and which are then recomposed.