fasTnacht

Quartier Général inaugurates its first exhibition of the 2026 season with Jeanne Jacob, margaretha jüngling, Corinne Odermatt and Gaia Vincensini, focusing on pomp, transvestism and the grotesque.

The exhibition opens on the seventeenth day of Christian Lent. But before the lean days, there is excess, carnival. "fasTnacht" summons up the night when everything overflows one last time before fasting, when play is fully authorized. Words, too, allow themselves to play: fast(en) - fasting in German, but also speed in English - and faste, magnificence in French.

This celebration, with its dark accents, is peopled by figures, objects and materials. The harlequin - Gaia Vincensini's character oscillating between addiction and debauchery, Jeanne Jacob's embodiment of a troubled fragility - rubs shoulders with Corinne Odermatt's contemporary ex-voto figures.

Like the locks, keys and smartphones scattered throughout the exhibition, margaretha jüngling's braids of beet and grissini thwart the codes of material and symbolism.

Guided by technologies, addictions, money and capitalism, what are the contemporary transvestites we're donning today? As you'll discover in the exhibition, the answer is : Your request could not be found.

Program

VE 6 MARCH

7-9pm: Vernissage

7:30pm: "red curtain" performance by margaretha jüngling

DI MARCH 8

2pm: Guided tour

SA April 25

4:15pm: Screening of Gaia Vincensini's film "The Golden Door" at the ABC cultural center


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