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The “Meetings” exhibition give voice to those who reconnect with their cultural heritage in museums. Imagined from a double will of Geneva Ethnography Museum (Meg) to question the authority of museums on the collections and dialogue With the descendants of objects from his own collections.
12 people, 12 objects, 12 stories
The Meg invites twelve people from different communities to tell their personal storiesimportant and often moving that connect them to the Meg collections. Each guest-EA chosen in the museum’s collections an object from their community of origin. The link that connects them is represented in a photographic portrait and is mentioned in an interview.
Discover these twelve stories that were unknown until today. Powerful stories related to a place, experience, present or lost connection, A inheritance that the MEG wishes to transmit in turn.
Image role
The “Meetings” exhibition also questions museum authority And the role of the image, whether through portrait or video. For several years, the MEG has been carrying out a Critical reflection around museum photographic practices and anthropological which still present today the objects of the decontextualized collections on a white background.
This kind of “identity” shooting refers to the practice of 19th century anthropologists to photograph ethnic groups for classification purposes. The approach of the “Meetings” exhibition seeks to divert this technique in making participants the power to choose how they or they are photographedwith the desire to bring out their intimate links with objects through chosen scenes.
To discover from November 1, 2024 to August 16, 2026.
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