For the second edition of the Biennale Son, Fabrice Gygi presents a body of work created in the mid-1990s: Always Upright (1995), Sans Titre (1995), Roadblock (1997) and Untitled (Sound System) (1997). The artist explores the mechanisms of power and constraint through simple yet tension-inducing devices. The megaphone, an emblematic object of public discourse and protest movements, plays a recurring role—sometimes activated, sometimes silent, it becomes the paradoxical vector of an amplified but controlled voice.

Fabrice Gygi continues his critical exploration of infrastructures of authority: grids, podiums, loudspeakers, tarpaulins... So many elements from the public space that he reconfigures to reveal their symbolic and political charge. His works, often minimal and modular, question the way in which our bodies and behavior are shaped by seemingly neutral devices, yet profoundly linked to the logics of order and power.

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