Exhibition open from September 6 to October 26, 2025

Fabienne Lalaus

Fabienne Lalaus grew up in Fort-de-France, the capital of the Caribbean island of Martinique. After training as a lettering artist, she decided to move to Strasbourg. She studied for four years at the School of Fine Arts, then worked for two years in an interior design firm. She has been working as a freelance artist for over ten years. Her work is supported artistically by Strasbourg-based artist and professor Gerhard Starck, who teaches at the prestigious École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. After numerous group and solo exhibitions in France, she has exhibited regularly in Switzerland in recent years, notably in Basel and Lucerne.

The works presented in Vullierens are abstract organic sculptures, whose sensitive and autonomous forms leave room for free interpretation. Fabienne Lalaus’ work, in terracotta and plaster, reflects her Caribbean origins and is strongly influenced by her reflections on identity. Her sculptures are unique pieces, individually fired in natural shades determined by the clay used. Her formal language stems from an inner strength and opens up new worlds connected to her roots. Her works evoke a perception of novel forms endowed with great expressive power.

The artist lets her intuition guide her creative process. She finds particular strength in abstraction, inviting viewers to rediscover the works from new angles through a renewed visual exploration.

 

 

Melchior Imboden

Melchior Imboden, born in 1956 in Stans, Switzerland, lives and works as an artist, graphic designer, and photographer in Buochs, central Switzerland. With a degree in graphic design from the Lucerne School of Applied Arts, he began his career in Zurich after working in Switzerland and Italy.

A trip to South America in 1991 marked a turning point: his black-and-white photographs were included in major collections (Fotomuseum Winterthur, Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, BnF Paris, etc.). A two-time winner of the Swiss Photo Award, he received the Duane Michals Award (MA-g) in 2022 and was nominated for the Nobuyoshi Araki Award in 2023.
His cultural posters have won awards in New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Chaumont, Brno, Toyama, and Vienna, and are featured in international collections.
At the same time, he has taught graphic design and photography at several Swiss universities (Lucerne, Bern, Zurich). A member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since 1998, he chaired the Swiss section from 2006 to 2010.

A visiting professor at ZKM Karlsruhe and the Berlin University of the Arts, he has also given lectures and served on juries in more than fifteen countries.

His work combines geometric rigor, a sense of composition, and an exploration of materials and colors.

Living geometries and colorful spaces in Vullierens

Melchior Imboden’s recent creations are a continuation of his rich artistic career. True to his geometric and constructive approach, the artist has developed a unique visual language that plays on lines, volumes, and color.

At the heart of this exhibition, the Spektrum group of works immediately catches the eye. These large wooden compositions, made up of elements assembled one by one, become veritable image supports. The superimpositions and shifts of the pieces, on several vertical and horizontal planes, generate new spaces that reveal color from a new angle.

Each work captivates with the precision of its geometric structure and the chromatic explosion it exudes. Bright colors contrast with more subtle shades, dark areas interact with saturated surfaces, creating visual worlds that are as rigorous as they are unexpected.