Off Words is a new series of books featuring interviews with women artists from around the world. Editors Julie Enckell Juliard and Federica Martini offer these artists a format to speak about the sources and visions for their work, discuss the topics they engage with, and to elaborate on their view of the world in which they live and work. Over time, the series will offer a new, polyphonic narrative of art history, told by distinguished artists who actively shape this history through their work, thoughts, and teaching. Silvie Defraoui, born 1935, is a pioneer of video art and of art education in her native Switzerland. Together with her late husband Cherif Defraoui (1932 94) she founded the legendary studio Media Mixte at Geneva’s Ecole superieure des Beaux- Arts (today HEAD Geneve). They also established the Archives du Futur, where they collected their jointly and individually created works in a range of media and offer a space for reflection on images, their status, and their potential for remembrance and anticipation. In recent years, she has been working with light projections and installations as well as with techniques such as ceramics and serigraphy. Text in English and French.
AUTHORS: Julie Enckell Julliard is a member of the executive board at Geneva’s Haute Ecole d'Arts Appliques (HEAD Geneve), where she is in charge of cultural development. Prior to that she has been director at Musee Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland, 2013 17. Federica Martini is a scholar of art history and curator. She directs the BA in visual art program at EDHEA The Valais School of Art in Sierre, Switzerland. SELLING POINTS: . A new series featuring interviews with distinguished international women artists that offer insights into the artists’ sources and visions for their work, the topics they engage with, and their view of the world in which they live and work . The series gradually constitutes a new, polyphonic narrative of art history, told by women artists who actively shape it 80 colour illustrations
