VIDEO WINDOW Focus – Artist talk
Georgette Maag: Smoke on the Water. Video installation, photography
Solo exhibition: Galerie am Platz, Eglisau
Opening: Sun 12 January 2025, 11:00-13:00
Duration: 12 January until 8 February 2025
Finissage & artist talk: Sat 8 February 2025, 15:00


Georgette Maag, Smoke on the Water, 2025 (video still)

The well-known Zurich artist Georgette Maag (*1955 Zurich), who works with video, installation, photography, performance and drawing, is presenting her new 2-channel video installation entitled Smoke on the Water in Eglisau. This originated from a one-month residency in Bogliasco near Genoa in 2023 at the Bogliasco Centre of the renowned American foundation of the same name. The work is accompanied by other videos, video sculptures and photographs, most of them are recent works.

The artist transforms the small gallery space into a dense, associative and seemingly limitless place of imagination thanks to her masterful, space-specific staging of the works. The enigmatic and poetic interplay of natural impressions and the presence of civilisation astonishes us. It invites to perceive the world attentively and ultimately to reflect on our existence. The exhibition closes on 8 February 2025 with the artist talk between the artist and Bruno Z'Graggen, curator of VIDEO WINDOW.


(only in German)