Friday 20 March, 18:00

Guided Visit: Cafés genevois

Dany Gignoux’s photographs and Georges Haldas’s accompanying texts form a poetic study of everyday life in Geneva cafés in the early 1980s.
The exhibition presents photographic images and written fragments that foreground intimate gestures, social rituals and the texture of public interiors.
Together they trace social memory and urban habit, offering a contemplative portrait of communal spaces.
Curatorial framing by Frédéric Sardet highlights the dialogue between visual and textual testimony and what it reveals about ordinary lives.

In French.

Promenade des Bastions 8,
1205 Genève
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Photo Credit: Bibliothèque de Genève / Dany Gignoux

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