In an attempt to promote the photography domain of Geneva, the “Révélations” exhibition at the Musée Rath takes an in-depth look at the great wealth and diversity of collections that are patrimonial, ethnographic, documentary, and artistic all at the same time. Interdisciplinary and organized in partnership with the Bibliothèque de Genève, this panorama is built from many Geneva foundations and institutions that are represented. A “Titanesque” challenge, in the words of the curator, Mayte Garcia, who brings a new look to the medium. It opens with the daguerrotypes of Jean-Gabriel Eynard, brilliant amateur who started photography at the age of sixty-five. The journey goes up to contemporary photographers, encouraging frequent round-trips through a labyrinthian set where real study booths are arranged. One of the first frontiers of the medium was archeology with the Genevan Fred Boisonnas and his studio and Edouard Naville’s spouse, Marguerite, whose albums mix memories and archeological surveys, Egypt being their key destination at the time .
Like a constellation of possibilities that, beyond the forms and history, questions the invisible face of photography, like the journey’s last image by Laurence Huber where units of time, gender, and location blend together in order to dissolve.
Intense revelation!
EXHIBITION
Révélations
Un état des lieux de la photographie à Genève
Curator : Mayte Garcia, assistant curator, Musée d’art et d’histoire
Co-curator for the Centre d’iconographie de la Bibliothèque de Genève : Nicolas Schätti
From may 27th to September 11th, 2016
Musée Rath
Place Neuve
1204 Genève
Switzerland
open from 11 am to 6 pm second wednesday of the month from 11 am to 7 pm
closed on monday
Fee : CHF 15.- / CHF 10.- Free until 18 yo and on the first sunday of the month
http://www.mah-geneve.ch
