The FMAC is Geneva’s Contemporary Art Collection. Within its 300-square-meter exhibition space, the FMAC consistently curates exhibitions that draw from its diverse collection of works, showcasing a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic expressions. Actively engaged with the local art scene, FMAC participates in events like the Nuit des Bains.
Curators Ghalas Charara and Rita Elhajj present a first collaborative exhibition that scrutinizes the collection through a shared, probing gaze. The presentation assembles works from the collection alongside archival materials and curatorial interventions, foregrounding fragments, indexes and ruptures.
It interrogates the ruinous logics of archives, the anxieties encoded in preservation, and the ways memory is displaced or exiled. The show stages dialogues between history, material traces and acts of remembrance.
Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00
Nur Dasoki is a Lebanese–Palestinian multidisciplinary artist who holds degrees in visual arts and in socially engaged artistic practices from EDHEA Sierre and HEAD Genève, awarded for her project Hikayat Nur. She teaches Palestinian embroidery in Switzerland.
This workshop examines tatreez as a form of memory and resistance, inviting participants to attend to the void and to recreate lost or imagined fragments of diaspora through cross-stitch on a traditional mahrama. Participants will compose two-color images and inscribe one or two words; final pieces are conceived as a collective series exploring remembrance and presence.
In French.
Created and performed by Leila Moon, this audiovisual piece investigates the nearly forgotten meddahates, a women-led musical and narrative practice from Algeria. Drawing on Moon’s Deep Dive into Meddahates research — field interviews and archival recordings — the performance interweaves sung material and oral narration with electronic textures.
The work foregrounds memory, communal storytelling and acts of resistance, offering an intimate, archival atmosphere that bridges past and present while highlighting female voices and cultural transmission.
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