Unrealistic mountaineers (2012)

In a display focusing on the activities and landscapes found at different altitudes, the show aims to address contemporary mountains as a lived geography running counter to the preponderant image of the Romantic Sublime, which started taking shape in the 18th century and was subsequently picked up by and promoted in advertising imagery, which extolled mountains as a pure, intact, preserved land. Although they have always been stamped by the fascination that mountains exercise, the invited artists have represented their many facets, from the most down to earth to the most fantastical. The point of view is consciously non-documentarian, dealing with a few inevitable elements but in a distanced way, i.e., snow, the view, chalets, ski slopes, winter sports, avalanches, peaks, glaciers, mountain refuges, mountaineers, the cold, and the fascination of the Far North.

Participating artists:
Dove Allouche, Neal Beggs, Alain Bublex, Jagna Ciuchta et Florent Grange, Claude Closky, Julien Discrit, Gaëlle Foray, Luigi Ghirri, Helen Mirra, Elodie Pong, Neil Raitt, Evariste Richer, Muriel Rodolosse, Denis Savary, Roman Signer, Valérie Sonnier, Daniel Spoerri, Nathalie Talec, Wood & Harrison, Rémy Zaugg, etc.