In 2016, the City of Geneva initiated a photographic survey. This important annual commission is awarded to a photographer active in the canton of Geneva, with a theme chosen for a period of three years. This initiative supports the constitution of a photographic heritage that is equally artistic and historical. The exhibition "Mobilités" presents three photographic surveys of Geneva, carried out by artists Zoé Aubry, Gabriela Löffel and Laurence Rasti between 2019 and 2021.
Their respective projects explore the ramifications of mobility in terms of its most direct impacts on bodies, those that move clandestinely and are sometimes hidden away, as well as those whose flesh is altered and whose image travels from screen to screen. Focusing on the movement of people and the control of migratory flows as well as surgical transformations of the body, these three photographic collections take a lucid, committed and critical look at the implications of migration policies and social injunctions on the appearance of bodies.
This exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the Centre d'iconographie de la Bibliothèque de Genève, which preserves this new heritage in its collections and commissioned the projects, and the Centre de la photographie Genève, which conceived and produced the exhibition in close collaboration with the artists.