28 October – 8 November

Quelque chose a changé

Lola Jay investigates memory, imagery and the ways we reconstruct our past. Working at the intersection of painting and visual culture, she produces oil paintings and painted-objects that reinterpret family photographs, film stills and found images. Her compositions borrow photographic framing to isolate gestures and everyday fragments, questioning how selection, framing and repetition transform recollection. The exhibition examines the porous boundary between intimate and collective memory, showing how images do not merely preserve the past but reshape and remake it. Lola Jay is based in Geneva.

Opening : 28 October, 18:00
Closing : 8 October, 17:00

Rue de la Truite 4,
1205 Genève
Photo Credit: DR
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Photo Credit: DR

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