Jura22_#09 Edition 2/3 Photograph

Joëlle Cabanne a swiss female artist born in Geneva in 1976. After an Artistic Maturity at Voltaire College in 1997, she study Art History and Cinema History at the University of Lausanne and Geneva (1997-2000). Passionate about architecture, she continued her education at the EPFL (2000-2002) and then turned to the Haute École d'Art et de design Genève HEAD where she obtained her Bachelor of Art in 2005. Since then she works as an architect in Geneva and pursues her artistic activity in parallel. During 7 years she taught the architecture as well as volume and drawing at the CFPArts in Geneva. Insatiable, she pursues her path as an architect in parallel with her work as a visual artist, since she co-founded dasBureau office of architecture and design. Today Artist's Studio and Architecture's Office share the same space and grow together in symbiosis. Artist Statement The line builds everything. Charged with a symbolic, representative or spatial force, the line structures Joëlle's artistic universe which she calls alternately *ExtraWelt* *Fields* or *paysages recomposés* The mains titles of her artseries. The line is also paths, trajectories, the line has a beginning and an end in architecture. The line is also colored, textured, infinite, curved, straight, dotted. It becomes the conceptual and aesthetic foundation of the art of Joëlle Cabanne. Like Ferdinand Hodler in front of the grandiose of the Swiss mountains and lakes, she dives into the colored sensation of the landscape, in the effects of mists, in the lines of crests... thus making appear the landscapes as expressionist metaphors of vital energy.