Statement
My practice is driven by a desire for bodily autonomy, growth, and not-yet-imagined becomings. My projects are long-term conjurations that merge intimate collaborations, fieldwork, material experimentation and speculative methodologies to create a space of ever-mutable form anchored within a queer and trans ecology framework. I work across installation, photography, design and performance, imagining proto-habitats that create a sense of collectiveness, belonging, rest and care. My approach relies on collaboration and shared experiences to build frameworks that are politically rooted yet open to x-topian explorations.
Biography
Saturn A. have been awarded the Emerging Visual Artist Residency at Cove Park (2024), the VACMA Visual Art and Craft Award (2022), and the CCA Lab Residency (2021), and were twice nominated for the Swiss Design Award. Their work has been exhibited at the CCA Intermedia Gallery, Transmission, Kunstmuseum St-Gallen, Photoforum Pasquart, and at Art Basel during the Swiss Design Awards (2015, 2020). Performances include Space Sporification presented at Double Thrills by Buzzcut Glasgow (2022), Nachtschicht #24 in St-Gallen (2021), and Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (2021).
My practice is driven by a desire for bodily autonomy, growth, and not-yet-imagined becomings. My projects are long-term conjurations that merge intimate collaborations, fieldwork, material experimentation and speculative methodologies to create a space of ever-mutable form anchored within a queer and trans ecology framework. I work across installation, photography, design and performance, imagining proto-habitats that create a sense of collectiveness, belonging, rest and care. My approach relies on collaboration and shared experiences to build frameworks that are politically rooted yet open to x-topian explorations.
I see the exhibhition space as
proto- habitats. In my projects such as An imaginary garden with real toads in them,
the garden a transecological habitat that re-envisions transness and dysphoria through the lens of interspecies relationships. Space Sporification
is a futuristic café on a spaceship: a swirling plant-shaped form orbits a new sun, queer voices play, and biometric sculptures measure and display the audience’s collective heartbeat.
Transitional object, the room becomes a new-refuge of selfhood and trauma healing.
Across these works, I treat space as a becoming condition, something that co-evolves with bodies, materials, and narratives. A space in between, a place of fragility and constant negotiation, seeking independence from binary relation.
Biography
Saturn A. have been awarded the Emerging Visual Artist Residency at Cove Park (2024), the VACMA Visual Art and Craft Award (2022), and the CCA Lab Residency (2021), and were twice nominated for the Swiss Design Award. Their work has been exhibited at the CCA Intermedia Gallery, Transmission, Kunstmuseum St-Gallen, Photoforum Pasquart, and at Art Basel during the Swiss Design Awards (2015, 2020). Performances include Space Sporification presented at Double Thrills by Buzzcut Glasgow (2022), Nachtschicht #24 in St-Gallen (2021), and Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (2021).