Swiss Life 4 hands prize 2026-2027, 7th edition

The Chaos that gives me life. Atlas of an imagined country.

Oleñka Carrasco, a Spanish-Venezuelan photographer and writer, and La Chica (Sophie Fustec), a Franco-Venezuelan singer, author and composer, winners of the 7th edition of the Swiss Four-Handed Life Prize, unveil their joint work at the Rencontres d’Arles 2026.

The chaos that gives me life. Atlas of an imagined country revolves around the tectonics of exiles. A sensitive mapping of multiple crossings to sketch the sensory atlas of an imagined country. An imaginary territory inhabited by encounters beyond identities and nationalities.

Our common approach is part of a personal artistic research: to question exile as a universal movement and as an experience of rupture – painful and destabilizing – that forces us to reinvent ourselves. We approach resilience as a process of reconstruction; repair links, transmit memory, establish gestures of care and solidarity.
Oleñka Carrasco & La Chica

Exhibition from July 6 to October 4, 2026
Manuel Rivera Foundation
18 rue de la Calade, 13200 Arles

Live performance of the two artists (on reservation)
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Théâtre municipal d’Arles, 13200, Arles

The Swiss Life 4-Handed Prize, created in 2014 by the Swiss Life Foundation, is the only prize in France to bring together two disciplines: photography and music. This artistic award rewards every two years a cross-creative and original project by a photographer and a composer.