VANESSA ENRÍQUEZ: BLACK REMAINS
VILLA MORILLON, BERN
19.09 - 17.10.2025
A project organized by art+château
For her first exhibition in Switzerland, Mexican artist Vanessa Enríquez has developed a site-specific art installation conceived as a spatial drawing that unfolds in dialog with the Palladian architecture of Villa Morillon. As part of the vernissage and finissage, Enríquez has performatively activated her work together with cellist Hortense Airault and dancer Zoë Serafina Wiedmer. The audience was involved in a collective, multi-sensory experience of silence. In addition to the installation, other works by the artist were included in the exhibition.
The exhibition was organized in cooperation with the Villa Morillon, Bern.
Curator: Dr. Valentina Locatelli.
Artist: Vanessa Enríquez (b. 1973 in Mexico City, lives and works in Berlin)..Vanessa is a transdisciplinary artist whose work centers on an expanded approach to drawing as a contemplative and inquisitive practice - a method of investigating concepts and phenomena proposed by physics and non-dual philosophies. With tools ranging from ink to magnetic tape, she unfolds geometries on paper or in space that refer to the multidimensional nature of reality, recognize the material as well as the immaterial and defy the viewer’s perception. Enríquez received a BFA in Graphic Design in Mexico City and an MFA from Yale University in 2000. She has been awarded grants by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts. Her work has been exhibited in institutions such as the Aomori Center for Contemporary Art, Japan (2022); the Drawing Lab, Paris (2021); Querétaro Museum of Contemporary Art (MACQ) (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca (MACO, 2020); and the Museum of Contemporary Art Juan Soriano in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2021), among others.
Installation views. Photos by Andrea Rossetti.