Zimoun, born 1977 in Switzerland, is autodidact, lives and works in Bern. He focusses on creating installations and sound sculptures, usually in connection with mechanical features, movement and physically generated sounds. His creations are graceful, mechanically harmonized works of poetic playfulness – simple yet complex, the result of repetitions with slight irregularities caused by routine and coincidence.
«I am intrigued in simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviours in sound and motion.»
Zimoun uses simple components. Through mutual interference and interaction these generate complex sound structures and movements. He often works with a great number of identical mechanical industrial elements, which he then manipulates and prepares for his creations.
His interest lies in the artistic research of resonance, space, movement, simplicity, materials and generative systems. The result is an artificially generated yet seemingly organic behaviour of these installations and sound sculptures.
Zimoun also works in teams, collaborating with technical experts and professional researchers, developers and engineers, but also with other artists.
Zimoun is founder of Leerraum.ch – a label and platform for artists who explore space, time, void, form and structure based on reductive principles and careful yet radical use of materials. It is also a networking hub permitting easy exchange of knowledge, visions and ideas.
