Sunday 26 April, 14:30

Guided Tour: Pleasing the Spirits

‘Pleasing the Spirits’ brings together artworks and ritual objects that traverse global cosmologies, honouring ancestral rites and belief systems. The show assembles a contemplative visual language—interventions, sculptural forms and intimate objects—that traces distant ways of seeing and the material traces of ritual practice.
Through tactile surfaces, quiet compositions and evocative juxtaposition, the exhibition invites reflection on what spirits, memory and cultural transmission reveal, question and preserve across time and place.

In English.  Kids ages 12 and up.

Rue Jean-Calvin 10,
1204 Geneva, Switzerland
Photo Credit: Musée Barbier-Mueller
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Photo Credit: Musée Barbier-Mueller

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