HitStories
Davide-Christelle Sanvee
L'approbation des chienx

Sensitive to the history of the places that invite her, Davide-Christelle Sanvee has invested the space of Hit, initially Anne Minazio’s studio, as a hybrid place between studio and intimate space. Davide-Christelle has recently been questioning her relationship with hair, initially through “braid-objects”, between sculpture and domestic furniture, which were presented and used at Hit.

For HitStories, she therefore approached this question from a sculptural, but also for the first time, performative, point of view. Inviting us to visit her for a chat, a coffee or a meal in her proto-workshop/apartment, which was moved to Hit for four days, she also invited us to attend a ritual that she usually performs before her performances, in the privacy of her home – that of having her hair braided. By displacing this action and making it visible, she links this act to questions of integration, but also of alienation, transformation and fetishization, which are central to her practice.

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HitStories is

A desire to (re)generate non-hegemonic stories

The honouring of embodied practices, knowledge, experiences, beliefs, stories, myths, dreams, theories and fiction internalised individually or collectively

An emphasis on the instinctive, the irrational, the ambiguous, the unconscious, the unspoken, the unsure and the speculative

the celebration of new personal mythologies

A focus on the therapeutic and restorative dimension of sharing and transmitting these stories

An interest in the process that underlies in an artistic approach

A look at how these stories take shape, become concrete, perceptible, tangible, visible, at the crossroads of visual, textual, bodily, oral and sonic forms of expression

Careful attention to listening, to resonance, to echoes

A desire to share moments of physical encounters

A reflection on the archive of these shared moments, on the trace they leave, on the memories they create

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HitStories is a program of performative events and workshops taking place at HIT, a Geneva-based art space, between May 2021 and April 2022. Each episode of HitStories highlights, over a few days, the practice of an artist at HIT. Events (conversations, workshops, etc.) aimed at deepening the research carried out by the artists accompany their performative intervention.

HitStories is supported by Pro Helvetia, la Loterie Romande, la Ville de Genève, la fondation Leenaards, le Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, DCS, Genève and la Fondation du Jubilé de la Mobilière Suisse Société Coopérative.