Expositions








Natreen - we are waiting


MAISON DES ARTS DU GRÜTLI | ESPACE HORNUNG | from march 7th to 13th


Photographies by Leila Alaoui.

Co-presented with Danish Refugee Council.


Vernissage :

MAISON DES ARTS DU GRÜTLI | March 7th at 6 pm

In November 2013, the international humanitarian organization Danish Refugee Council (DRC) com- missioned artist Leila Alaoui to create a photographic series illustrating the conditions of the more than one million displaced Syrians in Lebanon. In coordina- tion with DRC staff, Leila toured Lebanon to meet the men, women, and children of the crisis. While her portraits reveal the tragic experience of displace- ment, Leila’s artistic sensitivity critically captures the hope and resilience of a people, underlining their humanity and giving them back a sense of dignity.


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Crossed pens - Windows on Death Row


Espace Pitoëff | Café Babel (fragments) | from March 4th to 13th


A project by cartoonist Patrick Chappatte and investigative journalist / director Anne-Frédérique Widmann.
In collaboration with Globe Cartoon, La Maison du Dessins de Presse de Morges, les Bibliothèques Municipales de la Ville de Genève and the FIFDH.
With the support of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).

The entire exhibition can be seen in Geneva and Morges :

March 3th to 8 th | Maison du Dessin de Presse (Morges) | opening on Thursday, March 3 th, 5 : 30 pm
March 4th to April 6 th | Bibliothèque de la Cité (Geneva) | opening on Friday, March 4 th, 5 : 30 pm


Inaugurated in Los Angeles last October, Windows on Death Row brings together top American editorial cartoonists and prisoners awaiting execution in a unique art exhibition.
Cartoonists reflect on the virulent debate about death penalty in the USA, while inmates from all over the country share their daily lives on death row and the reality of a merciless prison system through their art. Here, art opens up a window into the controversial issue of capital punishment through a unique approach that reveals the views of the prisoners. Currently touring across the USA, the show will be presented in Switzerland, at the FIFDH.


Multimedia presentation followed by a debate with the initiators of the project on Sunday, March 6th at 5 pm.
More informations here.

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Syrian Refugees I Met in Iraqi Kurdistan


Maison des arts du Grütli and Centre d’hébergement collectif de Saconnex - Hospice général | March 4th to 13th


Drawn reportage by Olivier Kugler. Co-presented with Doctors without Borders (MSF) The exhibition will also take place in Centre d’hébergement collectif du Grand-Saconnex - Hospice général. In December 2013, cartoonist and illustrator Olivier Kugler accompanied Doctors Without Borders to the refugee camp of Domiz in order to report on Syrian refugees. Located on the Syrian border, it is one of the biggest refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan with close to 41’000 inhabitants. Kugler met Syrians of all ages and origins, who told him about their stories and the camp’s conditions.


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Message to Syria


Espace Pitoëff 1st floor | March 4th to 13th


Co-presented with the collective International Message to Syria and with the support of Wake Up Geneva A plastic and audio installation, Message to Syria pays tribute to the civilian victims of the war in Syria. The installation is divided in two parts. The first invites us to commemorate through sounds and texts. The second part aspires to bridge the two banks, and invites each of us to leave a message to the Syrians, to one of the victims whose name appears on the tree’s leaves or to an imaginary person. These words, our thoughts, will be relayed to Syrians on the web. The installation’s intention is to open our eyes to the human reality of the conflict and to offer symbolic gesture of solidarity.


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Escaped


Espace Pitoëff | Café Babel | March 4th to 13th


Video installation - photographs by Seivan Salim. Seivan Salim will participate in the " Sexual slavery – more than a weapon of war, a theological institution" debate on Tuesday, March 8th. In August 2014, Daesh fighters took the town of Sinjar in Northern Iraq, an ancient crossroad of ethnical and religious diversity, where Yazidis – an ancient monotheis- tic community, with roots in Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam – live. During the weeks that preceded the town’s downfall, the djihadists murdered thousands of people and kidnapped more than 5,000 women, who were then sold into sexual slavery. A year later, Seivan Salim, a Kurdish freelance photographer, went in search of women who had managed to escape. They pose for her, dressed in traditional Yazidi wedding dresses.


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The Manuscripts of Timbuktu


Espace Pitoëff | March 4th to 13th


Co-presented with the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF)

Written between the 15th and 16th century, the manuscripts of the Songhaï Empire are the indisputable proof that the African continent does indeed have a written history, thus refuting tenacious prejudices. Back then, Timbuktu was one of the principal centers of teaching and cultural production on the continent. Mali currently retains more than 900,000 manuscripts, most of which were suc- cessfully protected from jihadi attacks.This exhibit, based on the research by Jean-Michel Djian, journalist and producer at France Culture, offers us the opportunity to discover a long-ignored facet of world history.


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Des Images pour des maux



Fonderie Kugler | March 5th from 5 pm | March 6th from 3 pm

Project realized by the residents of the Centre d’hébergement collectif de la Protection civile (PC) in Châtelaine Co-presented with the Hospice Générale The opening of the exhibition will take place on Saturday, March 5th in collaboration with the Hospice général


On the occasion of the Week Against Racism and on the initiative of the Hospice général, the residents of Châtelaine’s Protection civile (PC) have realized, in col- laboration with the Service de la Jeunesse de la Ville de Genève, murals on the theme of the migrants’ journey. Firstly, two pro- fessional street artists gathered tales about the residents’ journeys, their arrival in Switzerland and their striking first impres- sions. The second stage involved the artists helping the residents transform their stories into images.



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64 Mowers



Maison des arts du Grütli | Espace Méliès | March 4th to 13th


Video installation by Manuel Salvisberg Co-presented with the Freedom Flowers Foundation 64 Mowers is a video installation conceived by Swiss conceptual artist Manuel Salvisberg. It is a metaphor for the Tiananmen mas- sacre of 1989, and a reference to Mao Zedong’s 1956 "let a hundred flowers bloom" campaign, which ultimately led to a purge through Chinese society. The number 64 rep- resents the 4th of June 1989, day of the massa- cre, employed in China today as an acronym to avoid internet censorship. The soundtrack is a PLA song performed by Peng Liyuan, China’s first lady, and the video ends with a reference to Jeff Widener’s iconic Tank Man. www.64mowers.net


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We are women, mothers, sisters...


Cité Seniors | March 8th to 13th


Photographs by Eric Roset
Co-presented with the Aspasie association and Cité Seniors Thursday, March 10, 5:30 pm Discussion with Eric Roset, photographer, and Sylvain Thévoz of the Aspasie committee followed by an apéritif offered by Cité Seniors. Photographer Eric Roset invites us to follow Angelina, a sex worker in Les Pâquis, in her daily activities, both professional and private. These photos reveal the life of prostitution of a woman who is, above all, a mother, a sister ... This exhibition is both rare and precious, as many chose to stay in the shade while Angelina choses the light. It offers a different perspective on prostitution and sex work and thus a commentary on combating stigma from discrimination and social exclusion.


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