A pioneer of video art, Silvie Defraoui understands the image as intrinsically ephemeral, never fixed or isolated, always a potential index of the past, present, and future. In conversation with Julie Enckell and Federica Martini, she looks back on her first encounters with art and mixed media, and on how memory is endlessly superimposed. On Words is a collection of interviews with leading women artists linked to the contemporary art scene.
Julie Enckell is an art historian and a director at HEAD―Genève, where she heads the Cultural Development Department.
Federica Martini is an art historian and curator and heads the Visual Arts department at EDHEA in Sierre, Switzerland. She is also a visiting scholar at London’s University of the Arts.
Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian and head of the Antenne romande of the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Lausanne and a member of SIK-ISEA’s board.