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"description": "Villa Bernasconi presents Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, a group exhibition where textile, sculpture and sound transform the house into a quiet haunted environment.",
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"textContent": "* * *\n\n#### On this page\n\n**Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories – Villa Bernasconi**\n\n**Artists:**\nSerge Comte, Vidya Gastaldon,\nChristophe Terpent & Jean-Michel Wicker,\nRyan Gander, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė,\nGotscho, Gregory Tara Hari,\nSonia Kacem, Léa Katharina Meier,\nMeret Oppenheim, Benoît Piéron,\nNina Rieben, Li Tavor,\nSandar Tun Tun, Claire van Lubeek,\nLatefa Wiersch\n\n**Venue:**\nVilla Bernasconi\nRoute du Grand-Lancy 8\n1212 Lancy\nSwitzerland\n\n**Dates:** 21 January – 22 March 2026\n\n**Curators:** Gabrielle Boder, Tadeo Kohan, Camille Regli (Collectif Détente)\n\n* * *\n\nInstallation views: Stitches – A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy. Photography: Nicolas Delaroche Studio\n\nVilla Bernasconi • Submit\n\n* * *\n\n## Curatorial Statement: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories - Villa Bernasconi\n\n** _The project reveals the spectral potentialities of fabric: veiling, transparency, imprinting. By unveiling what cannot, or should not, be seen, textiles reveal invisible and intangible forms._**\n\n**_The material becomes a surface for projection, a tactile medium im- bued with memory. The exhibition focuses on what is transmitted beneath the surface: family and cultural legacies, repressed and collective fears, fragmentary, intimate memories. It questions how domestic spaces, ordinary gestures, social structures, and forgotten stories can become sites of haunting traces of memory that elude rational understanding._**\n\nIn dialogue with the architecture of Villa Bernasconi, the house—in- habited by artworks - becomes a subject in itself. Throughout the rooms, visitors are invited to navigate among voices, absences, ap-paritions, and suspended narratives. Textile and sculptural installa- tions, videos, performances, and sound pieces together create a sensory experience that oscillates between popular and historical references, critical perspectives, and raw emotions.\n\nExterior view, ****Villa Bernasconi**** , Lancy (Geneva). Exhibition: __Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories__ , 21 January – 22 March 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio.****Gregory Tara Hari**** , House of Endless Corridors, 2025, mixed fabrics, dye, leather, smartphone. Costume: Lena Schmid. Exhibition view, Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, ****Villa Bernasconi**** , Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio****Sandar Tun Tun**** , Light.wav, 2026, audiovisual installation, 18’ (loop), 4.1 multichannel sound, projection, plastic, scent. Exhibition view, Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, ****Villa Bernascon**** i, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio\n\nHere, the ghost is seen as a messenger between worlds, a bearer of hidden stories, and a guardian of memory in the face of oblivion. A magical, spiritual, and fictional figure, it occupies an ambivalent place in everyday life, intimacy, and the world of entertainment. With tenderness, mischief, or fear, the works in the exhibition summon the presence of these spectral, imaginary, and familiar beings: these “others” with whom we coexist, who follow and accompany us.\n\n* * *\n\n## Why this exhibition matters\n\nAt Villa Bernasconi, fabric becomes more than material. It operates as a carrier of memory, absence, and inherited stories. For **Catapult – Munchies Art Club** , the exhibition matters because it shows how everyday materials can hold complex emotional and cultural residues that resist simple explanation.\n\n* * *\n\n## Notable Works and Exhibition Views:\n\n****Gregory Tara Hari**** , __Thai House__ , 2025, paint, acrylic varnish, wood, sound (sound: Thom Driver) and __The Victorian House__ , 2026, paint, acrylic varnish, wood, sound (sound: Thom Driver). Installation view, ****“Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories”**** , Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio.****Ryan Gander**** , __I is… (i).__ , 2012, glass fiber, marble powder, Collection Lionel Aeschlimann. Li Tavor, __Bright Curtains I, II, III__ , 2025, pigmented latex curtains, aluminum, carabiners. Installation view, ****“Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories”**** , Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio.\n\n(left)****Ryan Gander**** , I is… (i)., 2012, glass fiber, marble powder. Collection Lionel Aeschlimann. (right)****Li Tavor**** , Dark Curtains I, II, III, 2025, pigmented latex curtains, aluminum, carabiners. - Installation view, “Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories”, ****Villa Bernasconi,**** Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio.\n\n****Sonia Kacem**** , __Ensemble of Three (Familiar Strangeness)__ , 2023, textile, wood, metal. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich/Milan. Installation view, ****“Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories”**** , Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio.\n\n****(left)**** - ****Benoît Piéron**** , __Lucie II (lampadaire)__ , 2024, IV pole, adhesive pads, rotating beacon, silk scarf (by Sarah Schrader). Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Sultana ****(right) Gotscho**** , __Wedding 1__ , 1992, acetate, wool, nylon (Tati dress, agnès b. costume). Collection MAMCO, “Autour de Gilles Dusein”. Installation view, ****“Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories”**** , Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio.\n\n****Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė****, Enclosure (Haunting Seasons) I, III, II, 2023, aluminum, wood, digital printing on rag, 3 panels. Exhibition view, Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio.****Léa Katharina Meier,**** Jardin secret des ordures des sentiments, 2023, textile, linocut, cushions. Exhibition view, Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio.****Nina Rieben**** , Selective news, 2026, pigment prints on Hahnemühle paper, 2 pieces. Nina Rieben, Dreamadministration (Dauerentwurf), 2026, textile, handwriting on paper, to-do lists, threads, pins, chair frame. Exhibition view, Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio\n\n****Heidi Bucher**** : Bellevue – Kreuzlingen, 1990, directed by Michael Koechlin, digitized 16 mm film, 9 min., color, sound, Courtesy of The Estate of Heidi Bucher, Indigo Bucher & Mayo Bucher. Exhibition view, Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio ****(middle) Benoît Piéron**** , Cairn, 2024, discarded hospital sheets, porcelain, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Sultana. Exhibition view, Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio****(right) Claire van Lubeek,**** Cradled – Twins, 2026, cardboard, cotton, lace, forged nail, 2 pieces. Exhibition view, Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio\n\n****Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė****, Ectoplasm (1827), 2025, mixed technique on linen. Exhibition view, Stitches: A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, 2026. Photo: Nicolas Delaroche Studio\n\n* * *\n\n## More Artists to Watch:\n\n\n****Michele Gabriele**** __.__ Installation view from __I see you repeating this, I warn you in the sweetest way__ , solo exhibition curated by ****Carles Àngel Saurí**** at EACC, Castellón de la Plana, Spain, featuring acrylic on canvas and painted wooden structure, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist, Ashes/Ashes, New York, and EACC. Artist in Focus: ****Sándor Körei**** : Artist in Focus Daily, by Catapult, Munchies Art Club. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo by András Kurucz\n\n* * *\n\n### Want your work featured?\n\nCatapult curates artists and exhibitions built for long-term visibility and discovery.\n\n Submit your work to Catapult → ",
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