With a degree from the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Genève, this Genevan artist has long worked with food – and the act of eating as a medium, in particular. From his troubling feasts to his stagings of food, he has continually linked visual arts and cuisine. In his recent work, he has explored the photographic image, experimenting with different processes in his customary artisanal and sensorial approach. Like with a recipe, he creates his own photosensitive materials from scratch, allowing him to access a wide range of media and results. In addition to conducting experiments in a lab like a chemist, he has also converted a truck into a camera obscura for more “mobile” projects, and showcases old printing processes, like cyanotype, which uses light-sensitive iron salts to produce images in its characteristic Prussian blue colour. In our digital age, these techniques allow him to generate an image from beginning to end.

Website: Cyril Vandenbeusch

Window display: courtesy of L'iceBergues