Jerome Leuba

After producing many videos and films, Swiss artist Jérôme Leuba (b.§1970) has built a substantial corpus of living artworks entitled"battlefield." As such, these works create or describe zones of tension§by employing codes of representation that challenge the meaning these§images might bear. His battlefields do not only address zones of power§conflicts, but also the very personal struggles we might experience§when confronted with his scenarios. For instance battlefield No19/if you§see something say something (2005) takes the form of a simple§intervention in public space: a piece of luggage left inconspicuously in a§corner of the museum, an act that since 9/11 has lost its innocence §Many of Leubas works are thus dealing with anxiety, collective feelings,§and mass behaviors.§A conversation with art critic and Laboratoires dAubervilliers§co-director Mathilde Villeneuve, as well as an essay by Kunsthaus Zürich§curator Mirjam Varadinis offer an overview of Jérôme Leubas work and§its relationship to the public realm. The book also includes a short§narrative remembrance by the French filmmaker and author§Jean-Philippe Toussaint.§Published with Mamco, Geneva (Prix Manor).