About

Stéphanie Gygax is a Swiss artist, photographer and educator based in Zurich. She completed a Master's degree in Fine Arts at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), a CAS in Research and Art Knowledge at ZHdK and a diploma of advanced studies in photography in Vevey (CEPV). She is part of near. swiss association for photography and a newcomer member of Visarte.

Her practice spans from installation, sculpture, photography, moving image to publishing.
She picks up mass-produced objects and natural materials that she repurposes into a new constellation which looks into their origin or blurs their identity. Assembling them allows her to reimagine their presence in our lives.

The car, its components and the elements associated with it are recurring themes in her work, not only because their role and their use might change drastically in a near future, but also because of her interest in the sense of drift.
She refers to the drift as a half-dream state one can experience during long car rides, an altered state of consciousness close to hypnosis where one gets a feeling of flow, repetition or anachronism – as if space and time were bending over themselves.