Breaking the Rules

Swiss Haute Horlogerie manufacturer Audemars Piguet presents To Break the Rules, You Must First Master Them at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, an exhibition which showcases the Manufacture’s pioneering spirit in both contemporary art and watchmaking

Artist Alexandre Joly has been collaborating with Audemars Piguet to explore the sounds of the Vallée the Joux that have inspired both his artworks and the watchmakers’ craft. For over a year, he has reinterpreted the Manufacture’s home and origins, creating melodies which embody the physicality of nature. To compose Wild Constellations, Joly recorded numerous natural and industrial sounds in the Vallée de Joux which he then mixed to produce a one-of-a-kind sonic installation.

The work of British photographer Dan Holdsworth displays in Room I: “Origins”. Exploring relationships between people, time, and nature while bridging the worlds of science and art, his work is the result of weeks of meticulous field research, amassing hundreds of photographic images.

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