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Video Art from Switzerland. Works by contemporary Swiss artists in the framework of the project Love.com at the State Hermitage's Youth Center

On 18 December 2005 a video show in the Youth Center of the State Hermitage presented works by artists of different generations and nationalities, all living in Switzerland. The event took place within the project Love.com prepared by Katya Loher and Sylvia Rodriguez. Ingrid Vildi, Alexander Biancini, Solweg Dufur-Andersen, the Fakt Kollektiv, Genevieve Favre, Saskia Edens, Brogl & Schmidt/

Knut & Sylvie, Muda Matis and Suss Zwick offered their works, which had the stated theme - Love.com - as their common thread.

This present selection continues a series of video anthologies put together by Katya Loher and Sylvia Rodriguez that was shown in the Kult.Kino Kamera (Basel, Switzerland), in the City University of Hong Kong, Honyarado (Kyoto, Japan), Lothringer Laden (Munich, Germany), the New Gallery (Landshut, Germany), and Catginol Station (Dakar, Senegal).

Within the common theme and under the single name Love.com, the following video works were shown to students of St Petersburg:
Solweg Dufur-Andersen - "Christophe Rey's Bedroom" (2003/ 1');
Alexandra Biancini - "You remember Tino Rancha" (1999/ 24');
Saskia Edens - "Metamorphosis" (2005 / 2'50);
Genevieve Favre - "Carmin's Love" (2000 / 9');
Fakt Kollektiv - "Habita" (2003 / 3'27');
Brogl & Schmidt / Knut & Sylvie - "Candy Queen" (2002 / 4');
Katya Loher - "Wherever you were" (2004 / 5');
Sylvia Rodriguez - "Flowers" (2003 /12');
Ingrid Vildi - "If it is her" (2000 /11');
Muda Matis and Suss Zwick - "Mistake and Coincidence" (2004 / 7'48).

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Katya Loher presented the works by contemporary Swiss artists

Works by contemporary Swiss artists at the State Hermitage's Youth Center