What Remains · The mep, Lucerne
VV Interior Home · The mep, Lucerne. What Remains, VV Interior Home, 2026. Photography · Rabea Hüppi. Photographic Direction · Valeria Viollaz.
What Remains is an exhibition about the memory of materials and the time that objects hold within them.
Bringing together works by artists from Spain, Japan and Switzerland, the exhibition proposes a dialogue between cultures that share a single conviction: that beauty is not a surface effect but a consequence of integrity. That certain objects do not age — they mature. That what a material has passed through — fire, time, the hand, use — is not a mark of wear but proof that something real occurred.
Stone, pigment, clay, linen. Materials that time does not consume but deepens. Works that do not represent permanence — they are it.
— Valeria Viollaz, Curator
Three practices, three geographies, one conviction. Carol Moreno (Barcelona, Spain) presents Forest Reverie, a large-scale acrylic landscape that does not depict nature so much as remember it. Hiroshi Aoki (Aichi Prefecture, Japan) shows hand-built ceramic vessels, glazed, fired, and deliberately reworked after firing — clay that carries the permanent record of heat and process. Aline Brun of Atelier Brun (Sursee, Switzerland) reupholsters a vintage Minotti sofa in antique linen, circa 1920s, in dialogue with a fabric that has already lived.
The exhibition space at The mep is anchored by two travertine cubes and a conical stone pedestal — objects from the VV Interior Home collection that serve not as furniture but as sculptural elements in dialogue with the ceramic works placed upon them. Stone holding fired clay. Geological time holding the time of making.
A sofa reupholstered in one-hundred-year-old linen completes the space — a textile that survived a century, carrying in its fibres the time of those who wove it and the spaces it inhabited. In an exhibition about what remains, it is perhaps the most eloquent object of all.
Further works to be announced.
Hiroshi Aoki · Japan — ceramic vessel from the What Remains installation. What Remains, VV Interior Home, 2026. Photography · Rabea Hüppi.
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The exhibition is open to the public from 7 November to 2 December 2026 at The mep, Lucerne, Switzerland.
PROJECT CREDITS
Presented by the MEP and VV Interior Home
Works from the VV Interior Home Collection
Carol Moreno · Hiroshi Aoki · Atelier Brun · Pierre Casè · Karl Hügin · Emil Schwarz · Albert Rouillert · Anna Urata · David Bürkle
Photographic Direction · Valeria Viollaz
Photography · Rabea Hüppi
Coordination · Viollaz Group
7 November – 2 December 2026
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