Petites Cochonnes stage a simple, surprising encounter: drawing becomes sculpture, and sculpture begins to think like a drawing.

In these boldly colored ceramics, Agnès Wyler works with pig silhouettes and engraved surfaces that recall domestic interiors – plants, tables, lamps, corners, gestures. Everything feels familiar, yet nothing is literal. Read like small floor plans or quick sketches, the surfaces are drawn with thin, precise lines. The colored pigs appear as visitors: they land, cling, interrupt, quietly rearranging the scene. Here, the pig is not a motif but a character. A single figure can turn a plan into a story, a surface into a stage – asking, very simply, when an object begins to feel alive.

Agnès Wyler studied philosophy at Lausanne University and art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is working in series and is constantly questioning the world and what we perceive as reality, making her practice a never ending instrument for critical thinking. She lives and works in Zurich, her work has been shown since 1988 nationally and internationally in various galleries and institutions, like Haus Konstruktiv, Museum Rietberg, Helmhaus, Shedhalle, or Kunsthalle Zurich. She taught at the F+F art school in Zurich, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and in other institutions abroad. In 2003 she was a finalist for the Prix Fondation Edouard & Maurice Sandoz and in 2017 she was a finalist in the competition of the Swiss Art Awards. In 2018, 2021 and 2022, her work was awarded the Stipendium of the City of Zurich. Her art work is represented in numerous prestigious collections and was featured in several publications.

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