Brutti Ma BuoniNIKITA THÉVOZ

Nikita Thévoz's large-format collages exhibited at Café Le Tranquille were designed for the Brutti ma Buoni culinary project, an exhibition and a cookbook presented by the CEPV's Graduate School of Photography at the 2018 edition of Festival Images Vevey ; a way to reconnect with what awakens the taste buds as with what gives rise to sparks in the eyes!

During this project, Nikita Thévoz was invited to explore what a recipe from Canadian photographer Laura Letinsky called "Leaf pasta with roasted pumpkin / squash, seeds and cheese" told her. In these images, she adopts a radical aesthetic where her taste for black and white is revealed, as her borrowing from the photography both experimental and very constructed of the inter-war period.
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You can also discover, even acquire, the book Brutti ma Buoni at the café Le Tranquille, in La Becque | Artists' residence and Bokoloko, as well as Friday night at the Théâtre de la Grenette. This book tells the cooking of the senses through the images developed by 25 students of the advanced training in photography, the recipes and stories given by about thirty teachers and teachers, and the stories of Salome Kiner. The book is essentialy orchestrated by the photographer and curator Myriam Ziehli in dialogue with the graphic designer Pauline Piguet.

Give jam to the pigs to prepare a pudding for the Saint Martin party 2.0. A chocolate cake from his childhood. A fashionable roast of Ukrainian truck drivers requiring a plastic bag to cook the meat properly. A salade niçoise echoing the texts of Roland Barthes or a meatloaf reminiscent of a scene from a film by Chantal Ackerman ... and this is only an exquisite sketch!

https://www.cepv.ch/collection/brutti-ma-buoni-festival-images-vevey-2018/?g=1855
https://www.nikitathevoz.com/