Focus on: Exhibition MOTEL, CATHERINE LEUTENEGGER, 27th of january - 24th of march 2012
kissthedesign, Av. de Rumine 4, 1005 Lausanne
Opening the 26th of january at 6 pm

The young photographer from Lausanne Catherine Leutenegger (*1983) opens the 2012 exhibition program of the gallery Kissthedesign with two series produced between 2003 and 2004 – still unpublished – exploring the topic of the motel in the swiss landscapes.

Her photographs let us feel the kind of uncanny, David Lynch produces in Lost Highway or Twin Peaks. Though we are not in the United States, we are far away from the large areas of Los Angeles, Washington or Texas as depicted by Wim Wenders. Catherine Leutenegger conveys the american and strongly cinematic charged world of the motel in our quiet swiss reality. The photographer brings us to the periphery of citys, close to the cantonal roads of the french part of Switzerland, in search of these strange atmospheres of the films noirs that impressed her photographic language.