2023 Artist Residency : Haroon Mirza

While living in Verbier during the residency, artist Haroon Mirza will focus on undertaking creative work, conducting local research and engaging in an interdisciplinary dialogue around current climate concerns in relation to the themes of WATER and ENERGY.

The aim of the residency is the development of a new project inspired by the materials, technologies and/or ecological knowledge sourced from the surrounding landscape of Verbier, Switzerland.

Mirza has won international acclaim for creating immersive environments, performances and kinetic sculptural installations that explore the interaction between technology, sound, light, and electric signals. Through the use of electricity as his main medium, the artist questions our consciousness, behavioural patterns and ways of understanding the world around us.

He won the Silver Lion for most promising young artist at the 2011 Venice Biennale with The National Apavilionof Then and Now, a triangular anechoic chamber (a space with no echo) lined with sound-absorbing foam and fitted with LEDs that generated a noise which intensified as their light brightened. It is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The new work developed during the residency will be exhibited in the Verbier 3-D Foundation Sculpture Park this Summer.

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