NEOGEO - Décalages féminins: Claudia Comte, Isabelle Cornaro, Anaïs Defago, Sylvie Fleury, Athene Galiciadis, Andrea Heller

Grids, rules, repetition - the use of geometric, often monochrome basic forms can be increasingly observed in Western art in the mid-1980s. In western Switzerland, this trend has a tradition that is still effective today.What remains of Neo-Geo when the movement is examined from today's perspective - beyond its US-American origins, through the eyes of a decidedly female and conceptual practice?This publication accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich and the Edition VFO (Verein für Originalgraphik). It brings together six positions with a connection to this geographical space - Claudia Comte, Isabelle Cornaro, Anaïs Defago, Sylvie Fleury, Athene Galiciadis and Andrea Heller - whose works renegotiate the vocabulary of geometric abstraction: as carriers of cultural coding, as reflective surfaces for social attributions and as media of material and ideal displacement.