Bast Hippocrate - Aerowaves

Joyaux Lourdement Sous-estimés

Switzerland The Twenty26

Heavily Underestimated Gems is a visceral love fable where two bodies collide, cling and rebuild themselves. Through an intimate choreography of embrace, the piece explores tenderness, dependency, violence and the fragile work of finding oneself within the other.
Fueled by autofiction, its movement language emerges from rediscovered love letters, transforming memory into flesh. A soundscape of breaths and distorted pop fragments creates a shared emotional terrain. Both dreamlike and unsettling, the work traces the thin line between collapse and rebirth — a story of love that survives love, and of bodies ultimately learning how to part.

Biography

Bast Hippocrate is a Swiss and Afro-descendant artist whose work interweaves vulnerability, raw physicality and autofiction. His practice stages magnetic, porous bodies to explore how intimate narratives resonate collectively, creating links between the personal and the political.

Beginning as an autodidact, he developed his artistic voice in alternative and associative spaces — off-spaces, street contexts, and squats — before earning his Bachelor from La Manufacture HES-SO Lausanne in 2019. His works, including LoveLettersOrNot (2021), which addresses intrafamilial sexual violence, and Joyaux Lourdement Sous-estimés (2025), explore intimacy, the complexity of human relationships, and the navigation of trauma with tenderness and intensity. Moving between dance, performance, and narrative forms, Bast Hippocrate continues to cultivate artistic spaces rooted in listening, resonance, and embodied transformation.

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