CLAUDIA COMTE
HAHAHA

BEX & ARTS TRIENNALE, BEX, SWITZERLAND
APRIL 2014 – OCTOBER 2014Made of 18 tree trunks all 600 cm tall and 50 cm wide, HAHAHA, is an outdoor sculpture commissioned by the Bex & Arts triennale in Bex (CH) in 2014. The work was the first in the artists series of palindrome trunk sentences.On the 5th of October 2015, Comte activated the large-scale sculpture with a performance, and later video work, that records HAHAHA being set alight while two pianists play a rendition of La Dance Macabre. As the flames intensify, a daredevil motocross rider jumps through the burning letters speeding between the pianos and moving in and out of frame.

© Images Gunnar Meier

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CLAUDIA COMTE
Claudia Comte (b. 1983 in Grancy, Switzerland) is an artist based in the countryside outside of Basel, Switzerland. She studied at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, ECAL (2004-2007) followed by a Masters of Art in Science of Education at Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Visual Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (2008-2010). 

Comte works between media, often combining sculptures or installations with wall paintings to create environments where works relate to each other with a visual rhythm that is both methodical and playful. Her work is defined by her interest in the memory of materials and by a careful observation of how the hand relates to d...
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