13 November – 14 April

SMOG

David Ancelin’s SMOG unfolds over nearly fifteen years of work, where familiar fragments of the everyday slip out of focus. Printed by silkscreen on stainless-steel plates and finished with an intentionally interrupted polish, the images hover between reflection and obscurity. Tourist infrastructures, ordinary buildings, and natural elements appear suspended in grey expanses, stripped of scale and certainty. The exhibition explores how visibility shifts with light and viewpoint, turning fog into both motif and material, and asking what remains when context dissolves.

Opening: 12 Novembre, 18:00

Rue de la Coulouvrenière 29,
Geneva, Switzerland
Photo Credit: David Ancelin
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Photo Credit: David Ancelin

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