Saturday 5 September, 14:00

Exhibition visit and creation of “self and Lake Geneva” portraits

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Hydromondes guides a participatory workshop inspired by the exhibition Lake Geneva: A Living Being, inviting participants to make collage self‑portraits that merge personal identity with the lake. Drawing on the exhibition’s Seven Faces illustrations, the session foregrounds image-making, memory and embodiment, suggesting how water shapes bodily and cultural lives.

Through collage and mixed media, participants explore themes of belonging, resource dependency and landscape, producing intimate portraits that question and reveal individual relationships to Lake Geneva.

In French.

Rue des Cordiers 2,
1207 Geneva
Photo Credit: DR
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Photo Credit: DR

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