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Un grazie di cuore a tutte le persone che hanno partecipato all’apertura di “Framing”, esposizione personale di Mélissa Biondo @pusgl

In occasione del vernissage, Mélissa Biondo ha presentato l’omonima performance inedita, mettendo in discussione la nostra percezione del mondo attraverso la manipolazione dei media. Il silenzio, un green screen che suggerisce un’immagine ancora da definire e l’attesa infinita che qualcosa accada ci portano in una condizione di sospensione e spaesamento.

Come dellə Peeping Tom, siamo invitatə a sbirciare la performance attraverso piccoli fori e aperture e dalla vetrina, senza poter mai entrare davvero nello spazio in cui si svolge, ma soddisfando il nostro bisogno di voyeurismo. Lo sguardo è guidato e condizionato: ciò che possiamo vedere, e ciò che ci viene nascosto, è determinato dall’artista. Rimaniamo così ai margini dello spettacolo, alla ricerca di un centro o di una verità che continua a sfuggirci.

La mostra sarà visibile fino al 18 ottobre 2026, 24/7 dalla vetrina di Via Livio 16.

Foto: Sarah Mathon @boulettesarah taken in Spazio Lampo by @pusgl

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Siamo felici di annunciare la riapertura della stagione espositiva con la mostra personale:

Mélissa Biondo - Framing 13.09-18.10.2026
Opening: Domenica 13 settembre 2026, dalle 16:30
Performance Ore 17:00
Cena collettiva offerta, a cura di @un_zichinin dalle 18:30

Si può entrare nella mostra, oppure no? Per Spazio Lampo, Mélissa Biondo @pusgl trasforma l’atto di guardare in un’esperienza di curiosità, desiderio e incertezza. Una stanza apparentemente inaccessibile invita il pubblico a muoversi lungo i suoi confini, cercando aperture da cui cogliere frammenti di una scena che non si lascia mai vedere completamente. Framing esplora così lo spazio ambiguo tra voyeur e spettatore, tra guardare ed essere guardatə, avvicinandoci sempre di più a ciò che rimane appena fuori dalla nostra portata.

Mélissa Biondo è un’artista visiva che vive e lavora a Ginevra. La sua pratica esplora la costruzione dell’identità, le dinamiche di potere e le forme di alienazione contemporanea attraverso installazione, performance e immagine. Ha studiato alla HEAD di Ginevra e il suo lavoro è stato presentato in Svizzera e all’estero, tra cui Les Urbaines, Kunstmuseum Basel, MACRO Roma e, nel 2026, agli Swiss Art Awards.

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Can we enter the exhibition, or can’t we? For Spazio Lampo, Mélissa Biondo transforms the act of looking into an experience of desire, curiosity and uncertainty. An apparently inaccessible room invites visitors to move along its edges, search for openings and catch fragments of a scene that never fully reveals itself. Framing explores the ambiguous space between voyeur and spectator, between watching and being watched — drawing us closer to what remains just out of reach.

Mélissa Biondo is a visual artist living and working in Geneva. Through installation, performance, and image, her practice explores identity, power dynamics, and contemporary forms of alienation. She studied at HEAD Genève, and her work has been presented in Switzerland and internationally, including Les Urbaines, Kunstmuseum Basel, MACRO Rome, and the 2026 Swiss Art Awards.

Con il supporto di: Comune di Chiasso, Repubblica e Cantone Ticino Fondo SWISSLOS, Pro Helvetia / Grafica: @alfiomazzei taken in Spazio Lampo by @pusgl

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2 months ago

June 24, 2026
21:00-00:00

Summer Sheets presents

Who stole the Rabbit?
a performance by
Melissa Biondo @pusgl & Emi Curty @imeytc_ at 22:00

screenings of
CallMeChris archive (2012-2015)
Normal People
by Chris Lovasoa Kauffmann @coconut.mall.expert

dj set
taormina-dd @kaalaaa + always nunterri @always_nounteri

entrée prix libre
bar: 19h-00h
cuisine:19h-22h

le douze, pl. des volontaires 4, 1204 GE by @pusgl

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Mélissa Biondo @ Swiss Art Awards
@pusgl @swissartawards by @pusgl

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Presenting finalist Melissa Biondo (*1994), Art category. Her practice unfolds through performance, exploring identity, power dynamics, entertainment and the politics of occupying space, asking who exists by default, and who must devise strategies to take up space in order to be seen. Biondo’s work invites the audience to project into and onto her, navigating tension between presence and void, humor and the morbid, stillness and invasion. She claims ambiguity as both an aesthetic and ethical stance, a terrain where meaning wavers and perception stretches.

© Images
Portrait – photo credits : Mélissa Biondo
1: Edging, 45’’ performance, 2025, for the Swiss Peformance Art Award 2025, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel CH, photo credits : Karin Salathé
2: Edge, installation, 2025, PLATTFORM25 exhibition, CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel CH, photo credits : Sébastien Verdon
3: COLLIDE, 20’’ performance, 2023, ACT festival, HEAD-Genève, Geneva CH, photo credits : Philomène Lacroix

Swiss Art Awards
16–21 June 2026
Halle 1.1, Basel

#SwissArtAwards #SwissContemporaryArt #MelissaBiondo #SAAFinalist @pusgl

Design: @clioham @clemenspiontek by @pusgl

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7 months ago

Looking back at the Swiss Performance Art Award 2025:

Mélissa Biondo (@pusgl) with the performance «Edging»
Sound composition: LAFROFEE / @lafrofeeriique_

Edging—a moment of suspension, a delayed gratification where the body, on the threshold to action, becomes both presence and absence. Through a dramaturgy of slowness, Edging explores the dilation of time, where pleasure rubs shoulders with discomfort in a slowly shifting terrain, poised between movement and stillness, tension and release. The piece evokes both monstrosity and tenderness, concealment and protection. What seems grotesque may veil an inner calm, a refuge that can only be sensed through the gaps, folds, and off-screen spaces of performance. Biondo claims ambiguity as an aesthetic and ethical stance, inviting the audience to inhabit a terrain where meaning wavers, perception stretches, and the real remains inexhaustible.

The Swiss Performance Art Award 2025 took place at Kunstmuseum Basel on Saturday, November 15th 2025. It was hosted by @kunstkreditbaselstadt / @kulturbasel in collaboration with @kunstmuseumbasel.

Photos: Karin Salathé / @karin__salathe taken in Kunstmuseum Basel by @pusgl

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a year ago

🤭Little sneak peek of what’s waiting at 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 (2–27.12 @ Le Commun, GE)

– Spooky Action At A Distance – Jak Ritger (US) | Installation
Portals on each floor open timelines across history. Perception, belief, and hidden quantum-psychological fields shape new realities in this LARP-inspired, site-specific work.

– Max Pounder – lo.me (CH) | 11–12.12 | 19h
A body unfolds, watches itself, disrupts. Rules shift, the ground becomes play, and endurance takes over. Between performance and stage, lo.me explores ritual, resistance, and the persistence of play.

– girls’ games & city playgrounds – Hypernormalisa & Emil Adam (DE) | Sculpture
Second-hand toys merge into a surreal wall sculpture. Playhouses and miniatures reveal discarded childhood objects, reflecting on gendered socialization, material excess, and late-capitalist object-life.

– Reuter in Tehran – Bahar Noorizadeh (NL-UK) | 3.12 | 19h
A lecture-performance of secret files, cryptic diagrams, and strange maps tracing a financial entity surviving since 1889. Hidden histories of free-trade zones, parallel banks, and subcontracting empires emerge — an alternative cosmology of capital.

👁️‍🗨️ Reserve your LARP spot: play@forthewin.ch (link in bio)
📍 Le Commun, Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10, 1205 Genève by @pusgl

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Retour sur la dernière exposition portée par le collectif asap / A look back at the last exhibition curated by the asap collective

ડ𝕥ⅈꪶꪶ
part IV
Exposition collectif / Collective Exhibition
27.09.25

Paper Tripper
@pusgl and @qolrem

Crying Season
@natasza.gerlach Performance en collaboration avec Jozef Jie Sheng Chua, @closebyparadise accompagnée d’une création sonore de Sandar Tun Tun @pony_pride__

Repas de soutien à la Palestine
@phoebelaformidable

Vaporous Tactics
Youss Sidi Nix @phoenixatala

Concert live
Sophie Conue @thesoftnesss

Paper Tripper
Sur la route, un type en pull rouge l’arrêta. Il tenait son propre visage sous le bras. — J’ai trouvé ça sur le trottoir, ça traînait. — Garde-le, dit-elle. Derrière lui, un troisième traînait un sac plastique avec une chaussure dedans. Il souriait et demanda : — On va où ? Personne ne répond.

Un visage se porte comme un objet.

Avec cette performance, lo.me poursuit son exploration des corps en devenir-image, à partir de déplacements et de glissements perceptifs. Ce qui paraissait familier se dédouble, se déforme, se fige ou se multiplie. Le corps devient à la fois support, surface et obstacle.
Entre fiction et tangible, l’expérience proposée cherche moins à raconter une histoire qu’à faire éprouver un état : celui d’un trouble, d’une hésitation, d’un jeu de forces contradictoires où chacun·e est invité·e à trouver sa place.

Vaporous Tactics

Youss Sidi Nix, rappeur queer expérimental, pose ses couplets sur des morceaux instrumentaux DIY et collaboratifs. Il rappe, parle et martèle ses mots. Les fragments vocaux et musicaux sont déformés, retardés, réverbérés et inversés. Youss Sidi Nix pose ses couplets sur ses propres beats, basés sur des samples de musique marocaine extraits de cassettes et de disques échangés dans le nord du Maroc ou trouvés dans des malles familiales – parfois des enregistrements originaux de groupes, de rassemblements soufis... YSN sélectionne des extraits et envoie des bits audio de 64 pas à un séquenceur décolonial magique qui génère de nouveaux rythmes ou prédit rétrospectivement une playlist arabe queer.

photos: @pavomar @asap.collectif by @pusgl

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`✧ 𝓁💙.𝓂𝑒 🎀

𝒫𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝒯𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓇

𝑅𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓊𝓉𝒾☯𝓃 𝒹𝑒 𝓇é𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝟤𝟩.🍬𝟫.𝟤𝟦 - 𝟣𝟩𝒽🏵🌺
(à 𝓁'𝑒𝓍𝓉é𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓊𝓇 : 𝒽𝒶𝒷𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓏-𝓋🍪𝓊𝓈 𝒷𝒾𝑒𝓃 ❣)

𝑅é𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒹𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓇𝒸𝒽𝑒
𝟣𝟫/🍬𝟩/𝟤𝟧 - 𝟣𝟧/🍪𝟪/𝟤𝟧

ꜱᴜʀ ʟᴀ ʀᴏᴜᴛᴇ, ᴜɴ ᴛʏᴘᴇ ᴇɴ ᴘᴜʟʟ ʀᴏᴜɢᴇ ʟ’ᴀʀʀÊᴛᴀ. ɪʟ ᴛᴇɴᴀɪᴛ ꜱᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴘʀᴇ ᴠɪꜱᴀɢᴇ ꜱᴏᴜꜱ ʟᴇ ʙʀᴀꜱ. — ᴊ’ᴀɪ ᴛʀᴏᴜᴠÉ Çᴀ ꜱᴜʀ ʟᴇ ᴛʀᴏᴛᴛᴏɪʀ, Çᴀ ᴛʀᴀÎɴᴀɪᴛ. — ɢᴀʀᴅᴇ-ʟᴇ, ᴅɪᴛ-ᴇʟʟᴇ. ᴅᴇʀʀɪÈʀᴇ ʟᴜɪ, ᴜɴ ᴛʀᴏɪꜱɪÈᴍᴇ ᴛʀᴀÎɴᴀɪᴛ ᴜɴ ꜱᴀᴄ ᴘʟᴀꜱᴛɪQᴜᴇ ᴀᴠᴇᴄ ᴜɴᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴜꜱꜱᴜʀᴇ ᴅᴇᴅᴀɴꜱ. ɪʟ ꜱᴏᴜʀɪᴀɪᴛ ᴇᴛ ᴅᴇᴍᴀɴᴅᴀ : — ᴏɴ ᴠᴀ ᴏÙ ? ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴɴᴇ ɴᴇ ʀÉᴘᴏɴᴅ.
ᴜɴ ᴠɪꜱᴀɢᴇ ꜱᴇ ᴘᴏʀᴛᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇ ᴜɴ ᴏʙᴊᴇᴛ.

ᴀᴠᴇᴄ ᴄᴇᴛᴛᴇ ᴘᴇʀꜰᴏʀᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ, ʟᴏ.ᴍᴇ ᴘᴏᴜʀꜱᴜɪᴛ ꜱᴏɴ ᴇxᴘʟᴏʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴅᴇꜱ ᴄᴏʀᴘꜱ ᴇɴ ᴅᴇᴠᴇɴɪʀ-ɪᴍᴀɢᴇ, À ᴘᴀʀᴛɪʀ ᴅᴇ ᴅÉᴘʟᴀᴄᴇᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴇᴛ ᴅᴇ ɢʟɪꜱꜱᴇᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴘᴇʀᴄᴇᴘᴛɪꜰꜱ. ᴄᴇ Qᴜɪ ᴘᴀʀᴀɪꜱꜱᴀɪᴛ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟɪᴇʀ ꜱᴇ ᴅÉᴅᴏᴜʙʟᴇ, ꜱᴇ ᴅÉꜰᴏʀᴍᴇ, ꜱᴇ ꜰɪɢᴇ ᴏᴜ ꜱᴇ ᴍᴜʟᴛɪᴘʟɪᴇ. ʟᴇ ᴄᴏʀᴘꜱ ᴅᴇᴠɪᴇɴᴛ À ʟᴀ ꜰᴏɪꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ, ꜱᴜʀꜰᴀᴄᴇ ᴇᴛ ᴏʙꜱᴛᴀᴄʟᴇ.

ᴇɴᴛʀᴇ ꜰɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴇᴛ ᴛᴀɴɢɪʙʟᴇ, ʟ’ᴇxᴘÉʀɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴘᴏꜱÉᴇ ᴄʜᴇʀᴄʜᴇ ᴍᴏɪɴꜱ À ʀᴀᴄᴏɴᴛᴇʀ ᴜɴᴇ ʜɪꜱᴛᴏɪʀᴇ Qᴜ’À ꜰᴀɪʀᴇ Éᴘʀᴏᴜᴠᴇʀ ᴜɴ Éᴛᴀᴛ : ᴄᴇʟᴜɪ ᴅ’ᴜɴ ᴛʀᴏᴜʙʟᴇ, ᴅ’ᴜɴᴇ ʜÉꜱɪᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴅ’ᴜɴ ᴊᴇᴜ ᴅᴇ ꜰᴏʀᴄᴇꜱ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴀᴅɪᴄᴛᴏɪʀᴇꜱ ᴏÙ ᴄʜᴀᴄᴜɴ·ᴇ ᴇꜱᴛ ɪɴᴠɪᴛÉ·ᴇ À ᴛʀᴏᴜᴠᴇʀ ꜱᴀ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ.

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ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴏᴀᴅ, ᴀ ɢᴜʏ ɪɴ ᴀ ʀᴇᴅ ᴊᴜᴍᴘᴇʀ ꜱᴛᴏᴘᴘᴇᴅ ʜᴇʀ. ʜᴇ ᴡᴀꜱ ʜᴏʟᴅɪɴɢ ʜɪꜱ ᴏᴡɴ ꜰᴀᴄᴇ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ʜɪꜱ ᴀʀᴍ. ‘ɪ ꜰᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀᴠᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ, ɪᴛ ᴡᴀꜱ ʟʏɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ.’ ‘ᴋᴇᴇᴘ ɪᴛ,’ ꜱʜᴇ ꜱᴀɪᴅ. ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ ʜɪᴍ, ᴀ ᴛʜɪʀᴅ ᴍᴀɴ ᴡᴀꜱ ᴅʀᴀɢɢɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴘʟᴀꜱᴛɪᴄ ʙᴀɢ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ ꜱʜᴏᴇ ɪɴ ɪᴛ. ʜᴇ ꜱᴍɪʟᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀꜱᴋᴇᴅ, ‘ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ᴡᴇ ɢᴏɪɴɢ?’ ɴᴏ ᴏɴᴇ ᴀɴꜱᴡᴇʀᴇᴅ.

ᴀ ꜰᴀᴄᴇ ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ᴄᴀʀʀɪᴇᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀɴ ᴏʙᴊᴇᴄᴛ.
ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴘᴇʀꜰᴏʀᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ, ʟᴏ.ᴍᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛɪɴᴜᴇꜱ ɪᴛꜱ ᴇxᴘʟᴏʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ʙᴏᴅɪᴇꜱ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ɪᴍᴀɢᴇꜱ, ʙᴀꜱᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ᴘᴇʀᴄᴇᴘᴛᴜᴀʟ ꜱʜɪꜰᴛꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴍᴏᴠᴇᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ. ᴡʜᴀᴛ ꜱᴇᴇᴍᴇᴅ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟɪᴀʀ ꜱᴘʟɪᴛꜱ ɪɴ ᴛᴡᴏ, ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ ᴅɪꜱᴛᴏʀᴛᴇᴅ, ꜰʀᴇᴇᴢᴇꜱ ᴏʀ ᴍᴜʟᴛɪᴘʟɪᴇꜱ. ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴏᴅʏ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ ᴀᴛ ᴏɴᴄᴇ ᴀ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ, ᴀ ꜱᴜʀꜰᴀᴄᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀɴ ᴏʙꜱᴛᴀᴄʟᴇ.

ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ꜰɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴇᴀʟɪᴛʏ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴘᴏꜱᴇᴅ ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ꜱᴇᴇᴋꜱ ʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴀ ꜱᴛᴏʀʏ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʏ ᴀ ꜱᴛᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴍɪɴᴅ: ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴄᴏɴꜰᴜꜱɪᴏɴ, ʜᴇꜱɪᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴀ ᴘʟᴀʏ ᴏꜰ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴀᴅɪᴄᴛᴏʀʏ ꜰᴏʀᴄᴇꜱ ɪɴ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ ɪꜱ ɪɴᴠɪᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ.

📍 𝐸𝓈𝓅𝒶𝒸𝑒𝟥𝟥𝟧𝟥, 𝟫 𝓇𝓊𝑒 𝒹𝓊 𝒯𝓊𝓃𝓃𝑒𝓁, 𝟣𝟤𝟤𝟩 𝒞𝒶𝓇♡𝓊𝑔𝑒 — 𝒞𝐻

𝒢𝓇𝒶𝓅𝒽𝒾𝓈𝓂𝑒 / 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝓅𝒽𝒾𝒸 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃 @clioham
𝐼𝓂𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾💗𝓃 𝓇𝒾𝓈😍 / 𝑅𝒾𝓈😍 𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓃𝓉 @atelier.tramons taken in Espace 3353 by @pusgl

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Views of Mélissa Biondo’s work in CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel

1, 3: Edge, 2025. Polyester prints, chair. Dimensions variable.
2: Performance by Mélissa Biondo at the opening of Plattform25, May 9, 2025.

📷 Sebastian Verdon taken in CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel by @pusgl

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Mélissa Biondo (based in Geneva)

Plattform25: 10.05 - 06.07.2025
Opening Friday, May 9 2025, 6pm
@cancentredartneuchatel

“Les Urbaines - Festival, 2023”
📷Margot Sparkes and Philomène Lacroix taken in CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel by @pusgl

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Im Rahmen des Drop Out Abschlussfestivals der Gessnerallee Zürich präsentierten wir vor einem Monat lo.mes Performance ULTRA auf der Chinawiese in Zürich. Die ganze Bildstrecke dazu findet ihr auf unserer Website.

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A month ago, we presented lo.mes performance ULTRA on the Chinawiese in Zurich as part of the Drop Out closing festival at Gessnerallee Zurich. You can find the whole image drop on our website.

Image Credit: lo.me, ULTRA, 2024 / Drop Out Festival Gessnerallee Zürich x Perrrformat, Foto: Binta Kopp

#Perrrformat #PerformanceArtSwitzerland #PerformanceZurich #stadtzh #zurich #lome #biennalefuerfreiburg #gessneralleezürich #dropoutfestival #melissabiondo #lorentschannen taken in Chinawiese Zürich by @pusgl

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