21 May – 21 June

ruine l’archive / archive dread / مَنفى الذاكرة

Curators Ghalas Charara and Rita Elhajj present a first collaborative exhibition that scrutinizes the collection through a shared, probing gaze. The presentation assembles works from the collection alongside archival materials and curatorial interventions, foregrounding fragments, indexes and ruptures.
It interrogates the ruinous logics of archives, the anxieties encoded in preservation, and the ways memory is displaced or exiled. The show stages dialogues between history, material traces and acts of remembrance.

Opening: Thursday 21 May, 18:00

Chemin du 23-Août 5,
1205 Genève
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Photo Credit: Laurent Fiorentino

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