Never in the newspaper, 2022. 37x25cm, oil on canvas.
Landscape with armpit, 2020. Oil on canvas, 90x70cm.
Moon on table, 2021. Oil on canvas, 50x50cm.
Stones, 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x50cm.
Interior landscape
Behind the bushes, 2017. Oil and acrylics on canvas, 70x100cm.
Jellyfish, 2018. Oil on canvas, 150x90cm.
We were watching you, 2017. Oil and acrylics on canvas, 50x70cm.
Last steps before metamorphosis, 2017. Oil and acrylics on canvas, 50x70cm.
Raclette, 2017. Print on pvc, 50x100cm.
Holidays in a cave, 2018. Oil and acrylics on canvas, 120x80cm.
Interactions
Fanny Balmer (1990, CH)
Fanny Balmer is a painter mainly interested in the pictorial representation of landscape.
Interested in the anthropomorphic landscape paintings of the Renaissance where the elements of nature look like human figures, she decides to do the opposite and to create interior scenes where the elements and characters look like landscapes, skies, or plants.
The artist uses personal photos and screen captures of intimate spaces as a basis for her work. Then she tries to break the domestic markers by playing with framing, patterns, elements and colors. Hair becomes plants, the hollow of an armpit is reminiscent of a mountain, pebbles placed on a dining table become asteroids.
The characters of his paintings are bathed in a strange and ambiguous environment.
In these confined spaces, bodies try to get closer to (their) own nature. Stones often decorate her paintings. All singular, they are painted as subjects and act as portraits.
Fanny Balmer lives and works in the PICTO studios in Geneva. She studied at the Head from 2010 to 2013. She continued her education at Chelsea College of arts in London where she obtained a master's degree in visual arts.
From 2019 to 2022, she benefited from a workshop at the City of Geneva and was selected for the Cantonale de Berne and the City of Geneva grants.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Manger des plantes, puis mutation, Milkshake Agency, Genève, CH.
2016 Mixtures du Labo, Reactor Gallery, Genève, CH.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Willi Woo (proposition d’Alexia Turlin) Eeeeh! La Grenette, Nyon, CH.
2017 Bras de fer & Hugs, avec Christina Jonsson, Culturhôtel Leysin, CH.
Exposition universelle du fromage à raclette, Martigny, CH.
2016 C'est pas l'été, La Verseuse, Genève, CH.
2015Dark Matter, La Reliure, CENC, Genève, CH.
2014 MA Final Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK.
2014 But seriously…have fun, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK.
2013 Vault, Shoreditch Town-Hall, University of the Arts, London, UK.
FORMATION
2013-14 MA Fine Arts, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK.
2013 Erasmus at Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK.
2010-13 BA Arts Visuels, Option Représentation, HEAD Genève, CH.
Grant
2019-22 Studio grant from the city of Geneva.