January 29, 2026 at 10.30 am
Ciné 17
Geneva, Switzerland
The conversation between Marina and Carmen will explore both the artist’s career and how images and objects produce narratives: how a chair becomes a character, how a photograph transforms into a sculpture, and how writing can reveal the political and personal dimensions of these transformations. The talk will be accompanied by a screening of Marina Faust’s works and short films, as well as a Q/A session.
Marina Faust (born in Vienna in 1950) is an Austrian artist who began as a photojournalist in the late 1960s before expanding her practice to include video, installation, and sculpture. Her iconic series, such as Faces, Traveling Chairs, and Rolling Stools (which we will present at Art Genève), play with perception, movement, and the displacement of objects in space, at the intersection of design, sculpture, and cinema. She has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as Le Consortium in Dijon and the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, and has a long history of collaboration with the worlds of fashion and design.
Joining her, Carmen Campo Real will bring her perspective as a poet and journalist. Born in 1968 and living in Geneva since the early 2000s, she spent many years traveling the world as a journalist for publications such as Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and TF1, before dedicating herself more fully to writing and socially conscious projects. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Hubris, published in Geneva by Éditions Slatkine.
