Corinne Vionnet

Corinne Vionnet (born c. 1969, France/Switzerland) - a Franco-Swiss artist based in Vevey, Vionnet is a pioneer in the re-purposing of web-sourced imagery. Since the early 2000s, her practice has traversed archival research, collage, and the appropriation of crowd-generated photographs, interrogating the mass image as cultural memory. Her works—held in major collections from SF MoMA to Photo Élysée—unsettle the singularity of vision, instead layering thousands of images into ghostly composites of collective seeing. Exhibited internationally from Bilbao to New York to Doha, her practice unfolds at the threshold of authorship, digital culture, and the shared imaginary.

With our 21st century attentions challenged by endless streams of information on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, as well as blockbuster films supercharged by quick cuts and loads of special effects, Roundhay Garden Scene is improbably well suited for our age: who really has the time to spend more than 1 or 2 seconds on any one piece of visual content?2

Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire, an 8-hour long, black-and-white movie featuring a single shot of New York City’s Empire State Building, offers a useful counterpoint.

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