Holding water, a little longer

As long as there is water, there is a trace to be captured. Since the 18th century, artists, writers and naturalists have portrayed Alpine waterscapes, drawn to their expressive power. Today these representations have become invaluable archives, preserving not only past landscapes but also the ways each era perceived its environment. The artists featured in this exhibition continue this history of looking with a renewed awareness: climate projections now point towards irreversible change. Looking is no longer simply a matter of representing or witnessing, but of preserving the traces of a world we know will soon no longer be the same.

Through photography, drawing, sculpture, video, installation and sound, the exhibition explores different ways of attending to water. Rather than documenting its disappearance alone, it reveals the transformation of our relationship with the living world and the commons. Conceived as a form of reverse archaeology, the exhibition does not exhume the past; it archives the present so that it may be remembered in the future.

Featuring: Aurore Bagarry, Ludwig Berger, Samuel Birmann, Myrtille Bouvret, Isabelle Daëron, Sylvie de Meurville, Marc Deneyer, Rebekka Friedli, Jean-Antoine Linck, Sophie Matter, Anne Paceo & Nevil Bernard.