Step into “ALCOVE IN SITU”, a living canvas where space breathes and memories resonate. This immersive installation transforms its environment into a sensory meditation on isolation, transformation, and time.
In this show, Encor Studio uses light and sound to dissolve boundaries between the built and the felt. Visitors can experience an evolving composition where visual and auditory elements merge into one flowing encounter—creating unique dialogues between perception and place.
Join a surface that remembers, and a moment where you become part of the composition.
Encor Studio was established in 2016 by Swiss audiovisual artists Mirko Eremita, David Houncheringer, Manuel Oberholzer, and Valerio Spoletini. Together, they bring a diversity of sensibilities and skills that define the studio’s distinctive identity and collective vision. Blending technology with lo-fi materials, developing bespoke tools, and experimenting with music scales, Encor Studio follows an ongoing pursuit in which beauty takes centre stage. Their practice foregrounds the symbolic resonance of light and sound, merging technology with the physicality of space. By making hidden information perceptible—interwoven with our physical and social environments—they invite new ways of seeing an ever-changing world that, like light itself, escapes our grasp.
Working across kinetic sculpture, architecture, installation, and sound visualisation, the studio persistently tests the boundaries of perception. Using mirrors, digital imagery, creative coding, data, water, and sound waves, they construct experiences in which spatial and material qualities assume unexpected forms. As viewers’ mental states shift, reality becomes warped—both literally and metaphorically—prompting contemplation of the human condition. This dynamic interplay between perception and concept captures transient moments that chart the studio’s exploratory path.
In its most recent phase, Encor Studio embraces a reductionist philosophy—subtracting rather than adding, allowing light and surroundings to take precedence. By embracing locally sourced materials and energy efficiency, the studio articulates a quiet resistance to uniformity and excess.