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Fred Boissonnas and the Mediterranean - A photographic Odyssey
25.09.2020 - 28.03.2021
The exhibition is dedicated to the oeuvre of the most
prolific member of the “Boissonnas dynasty”, Fred Boissonnas (1858-1946). It sheds light on a whole aspect of his
career that is both underappreciated and crucial: his journeys on the Mediterranean
Sea, which he spent the first three decades of the 20th century
roaming in search of light, of the Great Greece and free Egypt, of Homeric settings
and Biblical landscapes. Thanks to multiple collaborations, he has created a
body of
work that promote the subjectivity of the photographic
process and the capacity of photography to reconcile the visible with the
invisible, geographic features with poetry, a scientific process with
imagination. Through
his work, he proposed a new interpretation of landscapes and our world’s
history. Most of his photographs, presented here for the first time, are part
of bequeathed collections now owned by the City of Geneva. Both poetic and mesmerising,
this exhibition also attempts to provide insight into the ambivalent and
passionate relationship between Europe and the Mediterranean.