Friday 19 June, 18:00

Geneva cafés: life itself – Guided Visit

Writer George Haldas and photographer Danny Gignoux present paired perspectives on café life, combining photographs and text-based works to examine sociability in public spaces. The exhibition traces fifty years of change — from intimate face-to-face exchange to mass consumption and the rise of virtual platforms — and interrogates how uses of cafés have transformed. Through evocative images and narrative fragments, it reveals what these shifts reveal about memory, community and the tensions between nostalgia and critique.

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

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