Exhibition
Inner Light
CATALOGUE
Inner Light is a Switzerland-based art collective founded in 2018 by Kim Coussée, Eliott Villars, and Gaia Vincensini. Their practice lies at the intersection of contemporary art, fashion, and publishing. Taking a transdisciplinary approach, they combine printmaking, textiles, sculpture, and performance to explore the circulation of printed images through unconventional media.
For the Centre d’édition, Inner Light invited the artist Lyna Azwaw to create a presentation for their publication.
The project draws inspiration from documents and publications found in the CEC’s archives.
The opening will take the form of a performance leading into the exhibition.
09.07.2026, 8 PM – 10 PM
Opening
8 PM
Performance and installation by Lyna Azwaw, with contributions by Js Donny, Rosalie Dubois, and Leandro Russo.
9 PM
Book launch of Inner Light’s first book, Corpus, published by Kermesse, Paris.
15.07 – 31.07.2026
Exhibition and new edition
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Kim Coussée (Lausanne, 1994) lives and works in Lausanne and Paris. She is a graphic designer and artist who develops her practice at the intersection of commissions and research, exploring the relationships between signs, materiality, and visual narratives. She regularly collaborates with artists, musicians, and cultural institutions to design editorial objects, visual identities, and printed materials. In 2025, she published Interzone by Valentin Noujaïm with Mousse Publishing and Kunsthalle Basel, while also teaching editorial and typographic design at ESAD Amiens. She has recently created graphic identities and publications for Nike, Novembre Magazine, Oklou and Echo Correspondence.
Eliott Villars (Geneva, 1995) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Geneva. In 2018, he co-founded the Inner Light collective, developing a practice spanning visual art, graphic design, and curatorial projects. In collaboration with graphic designer Kim Coussée, he has designed several visual identities, notably for the Les Urbaines Festival (2022–24) and the Fauvettes City Club. He has also worked on various graphic design projects, including album covers and visual media for musicians such as Shygirl, Kelela and Oklou. Since 2024, he has been involved in various curatorial programmes at the independent Forde space in Geneva, including Forde Screens (artist film screenings) and Paperline (a series of artist posters).
Gaia Vincensini (Geneva, 1992) lives and works in Geneva and Paris. Her work explores the value systems that permeate art and society, combining material investigation and narrative. The winner of Swiss Art Awards in 2026, she has completed residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2020) and the Istituto Svizzero in Rome (2022). She has held solo exhibitions at MAMCO and Forde in Geneva, the Fondazione Sant’Elia in Palermo, Gaudel de Stampa in Paris (her representative since 2018), Martina Simeti in Milan, and ANCO in Ancona. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Swiss Institute (New York), the Centre d’art contemporain (Geneva), the Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz (Nogent), the FRAC Corse (Corte), the FRAC Lorraine (Metz), the Confort Moderne (Poitiers), the EMBA Manet (Gennevilliers) and the CAN (Neuchâtel). Her work is held in public and private collections, including the MAMCO, the Manor Foundation, the BNP Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, the FMAC (Geneva) and the Die Mobiliaar Foundation.
Lyna Azwaw develops a practice at the intersection of installation, sculpture, writing and performance. Her work is based on a precise use of materials and texts, taking into account their contexts, uses and possible transformations. The objects she mobilises circulate from one project to another, displaced or reactivated. Her writing explores the transition between several languages, based on a fragmented relationship with Arabic, English and French. Since 2022, she has co-directed BRUTAL, a series of events in Marseille dedicated to poetry and textual performance. She also writes and performs under the name yaabilar.