Epicure Cafeteria (BI building, EPFL)
March 13-26, 2015
Opening event on Thursday, March 12 at 5 p.m.
Coffee-show on Tuesday, March 24 at 4:30 p.m.
They may be researchers, secretaries, professors, computer scientists, accountants, engineers, technicians, lecturers, lawyers, or lab technicians, but they all have two things in common: they work at EPFL and spend their free time pursuing artistic activities.
After a first edition in 2013, CREApoly is back to showcase the creative genius of its collaborators. This year, the exhibition will be presented in the Epicure Cafeteria of the new BI building, which hosts EPFL’s central services and the post office.
Painting, photography, digital art – often the result of complex calculations –, collage, knitting, video projections… The contributions draw on a wide range of techniques and promise to be a treat for our eyes.
→ Participants list of CREApoly 2015
A scenography tailored specifically to the venue by EPFL students:
Adrien Cochard and Loïc Zürcher, two architecture students in the first year of their Master’s, custom-designed a set for the Epicure Cafeteria in the BI building. Confronted with the task of staging an exhibit in a venue otherwise dedicated to eating and drinking, they managed to design a structure that gives each work of art the space it deserves without encroaching on the area reserved for the restaurant’s clients.
The exhibition’s poster and the pamphlets were designed by Agathe Mignon, a PhD student in the ALICE lab and the scenographer of CREApoly 2013.
Visual arts, and some music and theater too:
On the second-last day of the exhibition, three members of EPFL will participate in a small concert including a theatrical intervention. The actors of this delightful program are:
- Kyle Gustafson, scientific collaborator in the Computational Systems Biology lab, along with other members of Catalyst, an English-speaking theatre group.
- Marta Martinez Camara, PhD student in the Audiovisual Communications Laboratory and trained saxophonist with a degree from the Madrid conservatory.
- Maïra Sanches, administrative assistant for the Research Office and singer in the folk band Paper Boots.