About

Stéphanie Gygax is a Swiss-born photographer with a background in photography, living and working in Zurich and Geneva. 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.

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 furthermore because of her interest in the sense of drift.
She refers to the drift as a half-dream state one experiences during long car rides, an altered state of consciousness close to hypnosis where one gets a feeling of flow, of repetition and of anachronism – as if space and time were bending over themselves.

The relationship between objects, images and space is at the heart of her practice. What happens when images merge with objects? How do they amplify each other and how do they unfold in space?
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. Reassembling them allows her to reimagine their presence in our lives.