Noyan 2015-2022 est l’histoire d’un jeune homme qui passe à l’âge adulte, emportant son appareil photo partout avec lui pour capturer toutes sortes d’événements à sa manière très personnelle. Les protagonistes sont les amis proches de Noah Noyan Wenzinger, qui grandissent à ses côtés et l’inspirent. Son langage visuel est difficile à catégoriser, au carrefour de diverses influences provenant du monde du cinéma, de la musique et des jeux, ainsi que de photographes comme Bruce Gilden, Walter Pfeiffer (dont il a été étudiant) et Ari Marcopoulos, ses modèles.
L’œuvre de Noah Noyan Wenzinger s’inscrit clairement dans l’environnement zurichois, mais son regard sur le monde des générations Y et Z de Suisse, les millennials et les zoomers, n’est pas typiquement suisse, que ce soit en termes de contenu ou de forme des images. Noyan 2015-2022 est une sélection très personnelle tirée d’archives déjà conséquentes que l’artiste conserve à son domicile zurichois. Elle comprend une documentation photographique de sa vie quotidienne, des clichés de la vie nocturne, des concerts et des vacances, et même quelques images de vidéo-clips. Le livre est complété par 16 dessins de Noah Stark (alias Clutterstew), ami proche du photographe.
It’s the story of a young man coming of age, carrying his handy point-and-shoot camera around with him everywhere he goes to capture all sorts of different goings-on in his very own way. The protagonists are Noyan’s close friends, keeping him company, inspiring him and growing up with him. His visual idiom is hard to categorize, for it’s an amalgam of diverse influences from the worlds of cinema, music and gaming, as well as photographers like Nan Goldin, Sandy Kim and Walter Pfeiffer, his role models.
Noyan’s work is clearly about Zürich, and yet its inside look at the world of Switzerland’s Generations Y and Z, aka millennials and zoomers, is not typically Swiss at all—whether in terms of pictorial content or form. And it’s precisely this contrast that makes the project appealing and meaningful.
Noyan’s work is clearly about Zürich, and yet its inside look at the world of Switzerland’s Generations Y and Z, aka millennials and zoomers, is not typically Swiss at all—whether in terms of pictorial content or form. And it’s precisely this contrast that makes the project appealing and meaningful.
Noyan 2015–2022 is a very personal selection culled from an already extensive archive, which the artist keeps at his Zürich home. It includes photographic documentation of his day-to-day life, shots of nightlife, concerts and vacations and even some music video stills. The book is rounded out by 16 drawings by Noah Stark (aka Clutterstew), who puts his idiosyncratic mark on everything he lays his hands on. The two artists are old friends with plenty of shared interests, aesthetics and stories to tell.
