Concrete Love — Collective Exhibition

Concrete Love is a collective exhibition developed by twenty-two students from the CEPV (Centre d'enseignement professionnel de Vevey). The project explores the possibility of reclaiming tangible forms of expression in an era dominated by digital communication. Through posters produced in silkscreen printing, the exhibition investigates how political, poetic, and personal voices can take shape through physical gestures, materials, and collaborative processes.

The works originated from a series of workshops combining collective writing, photographic experimentation, graphic design, and printmaking. Using the surrealist principle of the *exquisite corpse*, students collaboratively produced poetic sentences through chance-based writing exercises. These fragments became the starting point for individual visual responses.

Each participant created a composition consisting of three distinct layers: a photographic image, a textual element, and a graphic or material trace generated through direct contact with objects or surfaces. Printed separately through silkscreen frames and combined through color and transparency, these layers interact to form unexpected visual assemblages.

Rather than celebrating individual authorship, Concrete Love embraces collaboration, coincidence, and collective creation. The resulting posters function as visual scores where photography, text, and material experimentation converge, reflecting both the diversity of the participants and the shared energy of the group.

The project was conceived by photographer and educator Nicolas Savary and developed with the support of graphic designers Pauline Piguet, Rebecca Metzger, Alexandra Ruiz, and Samuel Schmidt.