Jérôme Sans: You are known for your hacker attitude vis-à-vis political, social, cultural and sports events. Entering reality in order to disturb it seems to lie at the heart of your artmaking. How do you articulate that attitude in your art?
Gianni Motti: If I’m a hacker, then most politicians are as well. They
transform reality too, divert funds. Nature is too, in a certain way, with its disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.). In the end, the only thing left for me is the interstices. I never know what’s going to happen. I try to seize the opportunity to make a tackle in the big game of daily life. Normally it’s not much at first; then it often takes on a dimension that is bigger than me alone. There is no subject that doesn’t interest me. I don’t set up any censorship. I let life guide me.
— Gianni Motti interviewed by Jérôme Sans

Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Kunstmuseum, Thun; 2001: Kunsthalle, Bern;
Swiss Institut, New York; Entreprise, Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; Artra, Milan;
1999: Analix, Geneva; 1998: Villa Arson, Centre National d‘art contemporain, Nice.
Selected group exhibition: 2003: Hardcore: verse un nouvel activism, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; 2002: Protest respect, Kunsthalle, St. Gallen; 2001: Arte all’arte, San Gimignano, Italy; 2000: Let’s Be Friends, Migros Museum, Zurich; Bruit de fond, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris; Mixing Memory and Desire, Neues Kunstmuseum, Lucerne.