Exhibition
Inner Light
CATALOGUE
Exhibition
15.07 – 31.07.2026
To celebrate the release of their debut monograph, Corpus, the Centre d’édition invited Inner Light to create a limited edition for display at a summer exhibition. In response to the invitation, the collective created two series of printed bags.
To present these editions, Inner Light invited the artist Lyna Azwaw to design the exhibition layout. The artist conceived the opening as a performance that would bring the editions to life and lead into the exhibition. Inner Light also commissioned the designer Leandro Russo to create a sculptural silhouette, which was interpreted and reinterpreted from the performance to the installation.
For CATALOGUE, the artists drew freely on documents and publications held at the CEC. They used archive boxes, graphic motifs, and textual elements, including lyrics sung during the performance taken from a work by Kristin Oppenheim presented at the Centre d’édition contemporaine in 1996.
09.07.2026, 8 PM – 10 PM
Opening
8 PM
Performance and installation by Lyna Azwaw, with contributions from Js Donny, Rosalie Dubois and Leandro Russo, and featuring Denis Tân Désir, Chirine Samii and Iris Pfyffer.
9 PM
Book launch of Inner Light’s first book, Corpus, published by Kermesse, Paris.
15.07 – 31.07.2026
The exhibition is open to the public.
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Biographies
Founded in 2018 by Kim Coussée, Eliott Villars and Gaïa Vincensini, Inner Light is a Swiss art collective based in Geneva, Lausanne and Paris. By applying printmaking techniques to clothing, objects and performance spaces, the artists explore the contemporary conditions surrounding the production, circulation and activation of printed images.
The collective’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland and internationally, including at the Centre d’art contemporain de Genève, the Centre Pompidou, the FRAC Lorraine and the Kunsthalle Bern. The collective’s work has also been featured in publications such as Novembre, Alei Journal, Terremoto, TRAX, Manners, Zurich Moves and A Part. They regularly collaborates with artists, musicians and designers, including Christelle Oyiri, Agatha Ingarden, Maëlle Gross, Sabrina Röthlisberger, IUTER, Maïro and OKLOU.
Lyna Azwaw’s practice lies at the intersection of installation, sculpture, writing and performance. She uses materials and texts precisely, taking into account their contexts, uses and possible transformations. The objects she uses move from one project to another, either being relocated or reactivated. Her writing explores the transition between languages, drawing on her fragmented relationship with Arabic, English and French. Since 2022, she has co-directed BRUTAL, a series of poetry and textual performance events in Marseille. She also writes and performs under the name yaabilar.