Following its opening to Western tourists in the 1980s, Tibet attracted many photographers. Between 1994 and 2005, Vaudois Jean-Pierre Gandjean made numerous trips there, visiting the province of Gansu as well as China and Indian Karnataka. The Tibet Museum is exhibiting around fifty of his analog photos starting this weekend, with the relationship to religion as the common thread. S. G.
“Grandjean photographs – Meetings in the Land of the Ocean of Wisdom”. Gruyères, Tibet Museum, until February 2, 2025.
Musique
Founded in the early 2000s in the Paris region, Danakil quickly established itself as one of the best European reggae groups. Driven by this fair and noble idea that music belongs to everyone, the collective draws rhythms and sounds from Jamaica and other folklore that it transcends during searing live performances. Here he returns with a 7th album with a hopeful title, Tomorrow maybe. S. G.
Danakil. Fri-Son, Fri 6 at 8 p.m.
Geneva
Spectacle
Do you like theater that shakes people beyond belief? Do you love being jostled by misshapen shapes that you wouldn’t even dare consider? So rush to Underground Meringuea new salvo from Sophie Perez, who has already demonstrated her ability to transform the set into a joyous explosion of assumed bad taste. “In a setting worthy of a Z series, which takes its ease and vomits right into the room, Sophie Lenoir and Stéphane Roger explode the codes to twirl between theatrical quizzes, 3D comics and tribal dances”, presents the program of this new opus on display in Saint-Gervais. We rejoice. M.-P. G.
“The Meringue of the Underground”. Maison Saint-Gervais, from December 5 to 7.
Ticino
Exposition
Traveling through Italy and Europe. Pay attention to the smallest detail. Having fun with mise en abyme, trompe l’oeil, fortuitous or deliberate symmetries, cardboard decorations, advertising posters, illuminated signs – often extinguished –, abandoned carousels, empty rides, parasols closed and solitary on winter or summer beaches. The Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) focused on all of this, casting his poetic and mischievous, sometimes melancholy, gaze on the world around him. We discover at the Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) which is devoting a retrospective to him, that the very possibility of travel enchanted him: he photographed the shelves of his libraries, the pages of his atlases. E. Mr.
«Luigi Ghirri. Trips. Photographies 1970-1991″. Lugano, Museum of Art of Italian Switzerland (MASI-LAC). just 26 January 2025.
Vaud
Exposition
We could say, paraphrasing Terence, that nothing earthly is foreign to Uriel Orlow. The Swiss artist is passionate about our planet, its history, its future, and those who inhabit it, with a predilection for human and plant communities. In Lausanne, at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, he presents an exhibition, a manifesto, a video. At the heart of this presentation, childhood and the forest. Whether it is the origin of trees – he was interested in the fossils that their first specimens left us – or those which, from the beginning of their life, are imbued with the forest: during a residence in northern Italy, near Bolzano, he filmed toddlers whose nursery is a vast forest. Every day, rain or shine, the kids discover humus, ferns, snow, bark. Uriel Orlow also displays a manifesto for a different relationship between man and the forest. We leave this visit to the museum with the impression of having, for a time, breathed differently. E. Mr.
“Uriel Orlov. Forest Futurism. Lausanne Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Project space, until February 16, 2025.
Musique
How to approach a festival such as Les Urbaines? Perhaps by taking literally the (minimal, almost abstract) way in which he describes himself: we will discover “artistic experiments”. Vast scope proposed by the management team (Yasemin Imre and Samuel Antoine), deployed between music, performance and exhibition. But what does he promise? Radical moments – which does not (necessarily) equate to “violent”: to experiment is to take sideways paths, sometimes at the risk of hitting a wall. And that’s very good. P. S.
The Urbanites. Various locations in Lausanne. From December 6.
Spectacle
The nerve of the text. Its veins on the edge of the page. Above all, its radiation. Since her beginnings around ten years ago, the very fine Emilie Charriot has favored indocile inks, which she adapts King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, Passion simple by Annie Ernaux or A feeling of life by Claudine Galea, with the intense Valérie Dréville. This means that his vision of The English Lover is expected. A man questions a couple whose servant was murdered. Nicolas Bouchaud, Laurent Poitrenaux and Dominique Reymond struggle in Marguerite Duras’ darkroom. The distribution is royal. The embrace promises to be fatal. A. Df
“The English Lover”. Lausanne, Théâtre de Vidy, until December 8.
Vaud and Valais
Spectacle
How did Charlie Chaplin, born in England into a modest family, become Tramp, one of the most famous characters in the history of cinema? This is what it says Smilea play by Nicolas Nebot and Dan Menasche which, since its creation in 2022, has won over audiences and critics. Here she is back in French-speaking Switzerland, with her cinematic effects – slowed down, accelerated, flashbacks. The show also has the particularity of taking place… in black and white! S. G.
“Smile.” Morges, Théâtre de Beausobre, Tuesday 3 at 8 p.m.; Savièse, Le Baladin, me 4 and i 5 at 8:30 p.m.
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