Notre Histoire Compte est un projet démarré en 2018 et réalisé en collaboration avec Isabelle Sentis, initiatrice du projet Queercode (autour de la mémoire des femmes lesbiennes durant la 2e guerre mondiale) et intervenante régulière à Lestime, accompagnée de Sophie Meyer, ancienne membre du comité…

Isabelle Sentis est co-fondatrice de Queer Code. Un espace numérique collaboratif qui rend visible les parcours de vie des femmes ayant aimé des femmes, qu’elles furent cisgenres ou transgenres durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, leurs résistances, leurs émancipations, leurs amours et leurs…

STRAT est une association de prévention des violences qui organise des ateliers d’autodéfense féministe. Ceux-ci s’adressent aux femmes, aux filles, aux adolescentexs, et aux personnes trans*, non-binaires et intersexes, sans distinction de nationalité, d’âge, de poids, de…

In 1972, John Berger was awarded the Booker Prize. The company that began sponsoring this literary prize in 1969, Booker, McConnell Ltd, had made its fortune exploiting resources in the Caribbean for over a century, forcing part of the local population to emigrate because of the attendant poverty.…

As Morena La Barba stressed in the review Décadrages (14, 2009, p. 81), “Alvaro Bizzarri’s films were not born in television studios, nor in production companies, nor in film schools. Bizzarri was a blacksmith… His films are born among the workers of the Italian Free Colonies, in Bienne,…

When she arrived in Geneva to study visual arts while working as a lecturer at the Beaux-Arts school, Boutheyna Bouslama quickly faced the limits imposed on her by her status as an extra-European worker. During a study trip that was bound for the city of Bucharest, she was turned away at the border…

Domitila is an indigenous Peruvian woman who has been an undocumented domestic worker in Geneva for over 20 years. With the death of her daughter several years earlier, she faced an unprecedented situation for her, namely financial hardship and extreme isolation because she speaks only Quechua and…

In November 2018, the curators of the show Nous, saisonniers, saisonnières… Genève 1931–2019 put out a call for projects. They were looking for an original proposal to create a series of portraits of former guest workers. I sensed their desire to record authentic testimonies with a film…

“Hello, my name is Mauricio Leon, and I’m a person like you, who has desires, dreams, and opinions… I do not accept any State labeling me a ‘foreigner,’ ‘B visa,’ or ‘Extra-European.’” With those words in mind and a black letter B painted on his face, Mauricio Leon decided one day to walk up…

Too intelligent, too beautiful, too strong, too much of a commie? Chantal Montellier has often been viewed a mix of fear and fascination – a fact that has caused her art to be relegated to second place in the history of her critical reception, when it should have garnered full attention. This…

Vanina Géré is an art historian and critic, an Anglicist and a specialist in the place of women in contemporary art. She studied at ENS Lyon, then obtained her doctorate at Sorbonne Nouvelle. From her time at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, this granddaughter of a Chinese immigrant has retained…

Interfoto was founded in 1976 by a group of nonprofessional photographers who wanted to put themselves “in the service of male and female workers.” The agency is made up of 6 members, Andrea Baccini, Franco Cavadini, Véronique Jeanneret, Cornelia Kerkhoff, Jacques Saugey, and Riccardo Willig. In…

Frédéric Wecker is an aesthetician and art critic. He was an editor from 2002 to 2012. From 2001 to 2004, he was in charge of the contemporary art section of the late generalist cultural magazine Sofa - the first magazine launched by what was to become the independent press group SO PRESS. In 2002,…