11 October – 2 April

Meyrin, citoyens du monde

Nicolas Faure revisits his photographic series “Meyrin, citoyens du monde”, presenting 71 intimate portraits of Meyrin families photographed in their living rooms alongside select urban views. The exhibition foregrounds the city’s multicultural fabric through portraiture and contextual material, and includes an audio listening area that gives voice to the people depicted. Archival commentary situates the series in the social and institutional history of the mid-1990s, exploring memory, migration and civic identity through a human-scale photographic gaze.

Place des Cinq-Continents 1,
1217 Meyrin
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