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Currat, Mireille
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Curnier Jardin, Pauline
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Cuomo, Raphaël & Iorio, Maria
The work of Raphaël Cuomo and Maria Iorio is part of the recent interest the visual arts have taken in the construction of memory narratives. The artists draw their inspiration notably from “microhistory,” a genre that focuses on, for example, the life of an individual in order to expose the…
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Collège du travail
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Clit 007
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Montellier, Chantal
Too intelligent, too beautiful, too strong, too much of a commie? Chantal Montellier has often been viewed a mix of fear and fascination – a fact that has caused her art to be relegated to second place in the history of her critical reception, when it should have garnered full attention. This…
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Briones, Pablo
Domitila is an indigenous Peruvian woman who has been an undocumented domestic worker in Geneva for over 20 years. With the death of her daughter several years earlier, she faced an unprecedented situation for her, namely financial hardship and extreme isolation because she speaks only Quechua and…
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Bouslama, Boutheyna
When she arrived in Geneva to study visual arts while working as a lecturer at the Beaux-Arts school, Boutheyna Bouslama quickly faced the limits imposed on her by her status as an extra-European worker. During a study trip that was bound for the city of Bucharest, she was turned away at the border…
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boudry, Pauline / Lorenz, Renate
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Bontout, Charles
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Bizzarri, Alvaro
As Morena La Barba stressed in the review Décadrages (14, 2009, p. 81), “Alvaro Bizzarri’s films were not born in television studios, nor in production companies, nor in film schools. Bizzarri was a blacksmith… His films are born among the workers of the Italian Free Colonies, in Bienne,…
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Biner, Pierre
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Bianchini, Alexandre
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Bertin, François
Photographe de formation, François Bertin a suivi la troupe de théâtre itinérante, les Tréteaux libres, durant l’ensemble de leur périple qui s’étend de Genève aux Causses du Larzac en passant par Londres et Aachen, entre 1968 et 1971. Son corpus photographique représente à ce jour la documentation…
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Berger, John & Mohr, Jean
In 1972, John Berger was awarded the Booker Prize. The company that began sponsoring this literary prize in 1969, Booker, McConnell Ltd, had made its fortune exploiting resources in the Caribbean for over a century, forcing part of the local population to emigrate because of the attendant poverty.…
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Baumann, Dorothée Elisa
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Bang Larsen, Lars
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Art Workers Coalition
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Aroud, Mathilde
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Archives contestataires
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A26n
Le 10 décembre 1980, 17 jeunes artistes exposants au Musée Rath profitent de cette tribune pour manifester l’indigence et la précarité de leur statut en exhibant un texte critiquant la politique culturelle de Genève à la place de leur travail artistique. À la suite de ce que la presse nomme une…
