Format Mondial / Weltformat is an open-air exhibition that was created during the pandemic. It served as a way for the Township to support its artists and showcase their work outdoors in the F12 empty advertising spaces—offering a COVID-safe alternative. The event was such a success that they continued organizing it even after the pandemic ended.
My painting was printed and displayed on a billboard throughout August 2024. Meanwhile, the original artwork—which I sent from Bali via a friend of my mom’s who was flying home—was exhibited in a gallery space run by the Township of Fribourg.
I was selected for the third edition, which focused on the theme Frontières / Grenzen (Borders). I proposed a painting about Bali and its unique way of playing with the border between beauty and ugliness.
In the creation of Scooters also appreciate sunsets, I played with the concept of borders in two different approaches. The first, I painted this sunset from a photo taken on my phone in Uluwatu, in the South of Bali. I thought the picture represented exactly my idea of beauty in Bali. The meeting of ugly and beauty. A sumptuous sunset blocked by a backhoe, a fence and a lot of scooters. Also the melancholy of knowing that this sunset will only be visible to an elite few weeks from now. The other approach is with the form. The tryptique is not cut in perfect proportions, meaning if you put them together they would overlap, showing that borders are always permeable and relative.
