“I’m very excited to be part of the programme and look forward to the upcoming workshops and collaboration with the other curators and artists. My curatorial statement maps the affective contradictions of “Forever Happy” through a lens of tragicomedy. I aim to address complex social realities in a way that invites reflection without heaviness. I’m excited to collaborate with experienced curators and experts, expand my perspective, and engage deeply with the practices of this year’s selected artists.”

“I’m excited to join the Bold and Talented Programme to explore how emerging photographic practices can serve as tools for storytelling, resistance, and repair. I really look forward to engaging with the paradoxical injunction Forever Happy, and to imagining new ways of working with artists and audiences through shared narratives of care and collective emotion.”

“Participating in this program represents a valuable opportunity for me to unite two disciplines to which I am deeply connected, creating a dialogue that transcends traditional boundaries. I embrace the beginning of this journey with curiosity and enthusiasm, a journey in tandem where different sensibilities come together to give life to narratives that do not merely tell stories, but reveal and transform. It is a chance to explore new ways of thinking and feeling together, building a collective experience that promises to be stimulating and enriching from the very start.“

“When I first read about the theme chosen for the 2026 Lenzburg Fotofestival I was immediately captivated – what does it mean to be happy, and why forever? Do we have to pursue a constant flux of happiness, or can we endure the high and lows, the turnarounds, the detours that daily life provides us? And how does happiness look like from a queer approach? Here I have the possibility to explore different takes of queer theory regarding this, and refine my own.
As my time at NABA allowed me to pursue my research both as an artist and as a curator, I wanted to take on the curator’s role for this project and challenge myself to develop that side of my work in a tangible sense. Specifically, I wanted to test myself in curating a specific medium such as photography: how can it be a document – evidence, testament, reflection – of and about queer happiness?
I am looking forward to concretize my first experimentations as curator, most of all because I see it as a form of collaboration and co-creation of the exhibition with the artist that will be involved. The development of artistic events, exhibitions, festivals, and so on is for me an occasion of community building, creating relations and working together: a festival, and in particular this one, is a chance to locate a research in a specific environment and see how it grows there, on its own too. I am excited to see how I will be able to grow professionally and as a person thanks to this opportunity, and where the research and its development will lead – and to meet everyone who is involved and interested in what we are doing.“