My name is
Sève Favre and I’m a visual Artist based near Lausanne. Originally from Switzerland, I was introduced to arts
from a young age but decided to follow academic study first Art History at
University. I supplemented my degree with a secondary school teaching degree,
which enabled me to teach art history and visual arts in high school over
fourteen years. During two years, I was in charge of the curation of the Olsommer
museum, and designed several exhibitions during my stay at the institution.
At the same time, I continued my education by taking several seminars
and workshops in the visual arts, notably at the Ceruleum in Lausanne.
In 2005, I created my first modular artwork and over several years I have
maintained both careers simultaneously, teaching and private commission for
artworks. Today I devote completely to my art pratice and promotion. I have
exhibited in Switzerland and abroad. I finished a solo exhibition in January in
a museum in Fribourg, Switzerland. This year, I was nominated in installation
and sculpture section for Arte Laguna Prize.
In my artworks, I concentrate on transcending the classical
boundary between the work and the viewer. The main feature of my art is
interactivity. The key words that support my concept is being interaction (be
together), variation (be different), activity (be active). My name for this
experience is « intervariactivity ».
I want to integrate the viewer into my art in a direct and
tactile way. I combine this experience with a strong digital (virtual) focus
and physical (real) way, through works on canvas, in situ installations,
performances, happening or digital works and projects. My interactive artworks
engages the public in the artistic process in order to have an impact on their
way of thinking about art and concepts.
My works are mostly built on canvas because it is a classic
medium. Among the materials I prefer, paper occupies an important place because
it is flexible and part of a rich tradition. The choice of techniques is varied
with a predilection for mixed media processes. I conceive also interactive
virtual artworks with which internet users can create a composition and then
participate in artprojects whose aim is to question our tactile relationship
between the real and the virtual.
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
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September
2019 to January 2020, Multi-Touch, Gutenberg Museum, Fribourg
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June to August 2018,
Intervariactiv Exhibition, Galerie Pirlot, Zürich.
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March to May 2018, Transmutations, Galerie Rivoli,
Genève.
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December 2017, Intervariactiv Pop Up, The Square,
Geneva.
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September to October 2017, Intervariactiv
Installation, L’étagère, Lausanne.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS :
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October 2020, 14th Arte
Laguna Prize exhibition, Arsenale, Venice.
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September
2020, FATar : Women in art, Kammgarn west, Schaffhausen.
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April 2020, Augmented
Reality City Project, Loughborough.
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November
2019, Art Next, PMQ, Central, Hong Kong.
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September 2019 to January
2020, Human Rights #Clima, Aiapi Collective exhibition, Fondazione Campana
Dei Caduti, Rovereto.
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Novembre 2018, La
Spontanéité, Lozart Exhibition, Flon, Lausanne
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October 2018, Accessible
Art Fair, Bozar, Bruxelles
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September
2018, FATart: Women in Art, Kammgarn West, Schaffhausen.
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April 2018,
Roy’s People Art Fair, Oxo Tower Wharf, London.
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March 2018, Inauguration Season 2018, Panier
Culturel, La Datcha, Lausanne.
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January 2018, Genuine Night, Espace Fert, Genève.
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October 2017, Art Next 2017, Art fair, PMQ,
Central, Hong Kong.
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May 2016, Flon Art, Collective Exhibition of
Ceruleum, Lausanne.
COLLABORATIONS AND MANDATES :
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French-speaking
Swiss representative on the organizing committee of the next «GFGZ Kultur und
Kunstkonferenz» 2020 (postponed due covid.19)
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Collaboration with Graff.io for AR
EXTRA : Augmented Reality, Loughborough.
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November 2019, Collaboration with
Itacus and Amitos for their Workshop 2019, Mexico City,Mexico.
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June 2019, Participative
Installation, Pop in the City, Lausanne.
- February 2018 to August 2018,
Comissioned work for a Corporate Image Movie, under the realisation of
« Cheese and Chocolate Film SA », Zürich.
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Participation to the « Panier Culturel
Lausannois » Winter Season 2017-2018.
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December 2016
and 2017, Mandates for Illustrations, 1DexMag Number 1 and 2.
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2016 and 2017, Fondation Room to Read, Zurich
Chapter.
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2012- 2017, Corporate
Mandates for several specific artworks.
ArtPRojects
#intervariactifproject
, #interagisproject and
#INTERVARIACTIFSERIALS
participatory
projects on social medias
