Annemasse exhibition: «Des fruits…»

HEAD-Geneva (art school) students’ exhibition around John Berger at Villa du Parc, Annemasse (beside Geneva, Haute-Savoie, France)
After their class «Expose John Berger» leaded by Aurélie Pétrel and Garance Chabert, 20 students proposed the collective exhibition «Des fruits tels que s’en souviennent les morts». John’s work inspired a great diversity of creations, some were very subtile for exemple the one inspired by John’s gesture, other were more related to John’s books, several have been inspired by Quincy atmosphere and Into Their Labours trilogy…

With : Marine Aebischer, Thomas Annaheim Lambert, Eline Botta, Maxim Campi, Elena Corboud, Salomé Djeranian, Prune Gaillard, Anael Huggler, Jeanne Levesque, Salomé Locher, Samantha Mermoud, Moussa Ndiaye, Luca Nuvolone, Louane Nyga, Elisa Pournin, Donat Prekorogja, Chloé Richard, Malik Schum, Patrizio Tannorella and Elisa Wyss.

More info on Villa du Parc website

From 2nd to 11th of June 2023

HEAD Exhibition inspired by John Berger – center : Malik Schum, Storyteller – walls : Maxim Campi, Hot night in a cold world © Villa du Parc, Thomas Annaheim Lambert
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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.