Window Fourteen, Geneva
Marissa Delano, Joachim Perez
This presentation brings into dialogue the works of Joachim Perez and Marissa Delano, two artists of a similar generation whose practices examine how bodies are shaped by systems of discipline, visibility, and desire. Though their trajectories differ, both investigate the structures: material, social, and symbolic that organize how bodies are formed and perceived.
Joachim Perez approaches these questions through textile installation. Using 1980s costume patterns sewn in antique Belgian linen, he transforms templates originally designed to produce standardized male garments into suspended, unstable volumes. These empty forms evoke absent bodies, while embroidered fragments interrupt the logic of the pattern itself, suggesting how social roles are inscribed onto bodies from childhood through uniforms, clothing, and other everyday objects.
Marissa Delano’s work examines how the body later enters spaces of spectacle and exchange. Drawing from her experience working in Los Angeles strip clubs, her photographs depict intimate scenes where desire, vulnerability, and violence intersect. Within her installations, sculptural structures and punctured frames recalling the cinematic keyhole organize the act of looking, staging the body within systems of voyeurism.
Together, their works trace a passage between early social formation and the later staging ofdesire, revealing how bodies are continually shaped, performed, and renegotiated.
