EXUVIE - AV SHOW
Exuvie is an audiovisual live performance, expanding the conceptual and sonic universe of Büchi’s album of the same name. The work emerges as a meditation on transformation, memory, and the fragile boundary between what has been lived and what continues to resonate.Derived from the Latin exuviae—what has been shed—Exuvie explores the tension between matter and memory: the traces that remain after change, and the slow, embodied processes through which the body absorbs, remembers, and transforms. Past and present coexist within the mind, their layers constantly blurring. Memories surface as dense, almost physical flashbacks, gradually deforming perception and substance. There is no escape from these internal strata—but there is renewal. Like a liquid skin, the body regenerates, flows, and reshapes itself. The body is only relatively solid; it can take on infinite forms. The brain has no form.
At the center of the visual narrative is dancer Rebeka Mondovics, whose choreography treats the body as a living archive, an ever-shifting vessel in which memory, perception, and space continuously merge. Movement appears as a fleeting imprint of time, carried by a breathing, porous corporeality. In close dialogue with Büchi’s music, sound and gesture form a shared temporal space, opening passages of remembrance and metamorphosis.
The video universe, developed by visual artist Brigitte Faessler, weaves together color, light, and motion into a sensorial visual poetry. Mixing analog and digital techniques, the imagery oscillates between the real and the imaginary, constructing fictional inner landscapes that feel both intimate and uncanny. The aesthetic draws inspiration from the distorted corporeality of Francis Bacon, the dreamlike logic and psychological tension of David Lynch, and the saturated, emotionally charged color worlds of Pedro Almodóvar and Salvador Dalí.
The video universe, developed by visual artist Brigitte Faessler, weaves together color, light, and motion into a sensorial visual poetry. Mixing analog and digital techniques, the imagery oscillates between the real and the imaginary, constructing fictional inner landscapes that feel both intimate and uncanny. The aesthetic draws inspiration from the distorted corporeality of Francis Bacon, the dreamlike logic and psychological tension of David Lynch, and the saturated, emotionally charged color worlds of Pedro Almodóvar and Salvador Dalí.
Musically, Exuvie takes shape like a painting in sound. Büchi’s composition moves between electroacoustic spectral layers, orchestral gestures, and unadorned rhythmic repetitions, integrating echoes of video game soundtracks, anime music, hip hop, and late Romanticism. These fragments, both personal and cultural—form an architecture of remembrance: a fragile skin suspended between temporalities.
Exuvie is an immersive experience where sound, movement, and image converge to reflect on impermanence, bodily memory, and the quiet resonance of what is no longer, yet still vibrates.
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