OHH - The way you almost said it — by Peilian Li and César Axel
Associates curators is hosting :
Otter Holding Hands by Ambra Viviani, Giulietta
OHH, season 3, Loving in Between 2025
Artists: Peilian Li and César Axel
Title: “The way you almost said it”
co-production: Giulietta and Lumpen Station
supports: Pro Helvetia, FSRC - Swiss perform
Description of the sound piece:
“Fragments of music rebuilt from memories of Chunking Express and
Lost in Translation
A dialogue between characters
Some are obsessed over pineapple cans
Some struggle with taking good photographs
Some are flirting with optimism
Some just want to be left alone…
Here is a new story:
The love was narrated in an unfamiliar language, written on a paper
folded into a paper plane, flew through a tunnel, then down it went,
landing somewhere in between. “
Peilian Li (Emma Bucks) and César Axel
are artists living and working in Vevey, Switzerland.
Their collaborations move through memory, distance, and
disappearance, using sound, image, language, and poetic drift.
Individually, Peilian works with sculpture, AI, and narrative, utilizing
personal archives and quiet research into soft, shifting forms.
César Axel works with digital memory, found and taken images, and
everyday objects, tracing the emotional life of things that fade.
They move between languages, platforms, and moods.
They let things leak, misalign, and gently overlap.
Together, they make soft archives.