Annaïk Lou Pitteloud (*1980) is a Swiss artist who lives and works between Brussels and Bern. Her practice is characterized by sober interventions through which she questions and thwarts the systems of representation and the norms that determine the social uses of spaces, paying particular attention to institutional frameworks.
Initially scheduled for the end of April to mid-May to coincide with the Art Brussels fair, the exhibition was postponed during the summer, in accordance with health measures. Without modifying the contents, this project has in the meantime seen its meaning influenced by the context we are living in and which reaffirms its purpose. With a large part of social life being put under the bell, communication tools become the relay for human relations that are subjugated to isolation and distance, whereas in art, they provide platforms for relocation, reducing it to issues of visibility and distribution, leaving more than ever the power relations linked to artistic work and production in the shadow.
Through this exhibition, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud reflects on the value and the relationship that binds the artist to his production, while wondering what remains of this intimacy beyond the public transfer of the work – if such fidelity ever existed. Entitled Long Distance, it brings into play the notions of time and space, playing on physical scales, as much as inscribing itself in a long time with an implicit reference to an artistic figure whose she questions the legacy.

ill : Ad Reinhardt, Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt, (ed. Barbara Rose), University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1991