Bernard Voïta's artistic practice varies between sculpture and photography. The artist painstakingly produces scenes by combining found objects and photographing them from a specific point of view.
Bernard Voïta was born in Cully (CH) in 1960. He obtained his diploma in 1988 at the ESAV in Geneva by participating in the workshop of Silvie and Chérif Defraoui. Bernard Voïta's artistic practice varies between sculpture and photography. The artist meticulously produces scenes by combining found objects and photographing them from a specific point of view. The result looks like manual or digital collages, but are in fact photographs where the effects have been created by intervening only on the constructed reality. The constructed image can be read in two ways: the first one emphasizes the geometrical values of the composition and presents a legible system of shapes and patterns obtained through colour contrasts, in the second one the combination of objects appears as an almost unreal whole. Bernard Voïta has been awarded the Prix Fédéral three times (1988, 1990 and 1997), he also won the Barclay Prize in 1992 and the BCG Prize (Barque cantonale de Genève) in 1997. He lives and works between Lausanne and Brussels.