Claude Piguet has been working in collaboration with Annelore Schneider since 2002 under the name ‘collectif_fact’. Their work, primarily video, reflects on contemporary image economies, surroundings, production, and consumption. Their practice investigates the pervasive, alienating, and ecological impacts of images on our contemporary lives using speculative worlds and fiction production.
collectif_fact uses narration, cinematographic codes, and editing to speculate and investigate how narratives can be appropriated, disrupted and re-edited. Their videos mix a complex set of references from 3D scans, snippets of film dialogues, and archival images to sound extracts. A collage of familiar and recognizable images emerges, with a multitude of allusions to our visual culture. Collectif_fact plays with our desire to be drawn in and deceived by these images, encouraging the viewer to critically reflect on the habits that condition our perceptions of reality.
They work between Geneva, London and Berlin and regularly exhibit their works in solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad.
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