Join us for a guided tour of Cécile Monnier: Nature, Memory, and the Ambivalence of Human Connection with curator Danaé Panchaud. Explore how Monnier’s work examines the complex relationship between humans and nature through two powerful installations.

Tout est fichu comme un sandwich à la soupe reflects on fly fishing, exploring how this practice connects and disturbs the environment. In turn around, turn around, turn around, Monnier looks back at her rural childhood, considering how our personal memories shape our understanding of nature.

Danaé will guide you through these thought-provoking works, discussing their themes of interdependence and the human impact on the natural world.

This tour is held in French.

About Danaé Panchaud

Danaé Panchaud is a museologist, curator and lecturer specialising in photography. She has been the director and curator of the Photoforum Pasquart in Biel from 2018 to 2021 and is currently the director of the Centre de la photographie Genève.

She trained in photography before completing a bachelor’s degree with a specialisation in curatorial and critical practices at HEAD – Geneva. She studied museology at Birkbeck, University of London, earning a master’s degree in 2017. She previously held positions in several Swiss institutions in the fields of contemporary art, design and science, and was a lecturer at the Vevey School of Photography from 2014 to 2018. She is the president of Spectrum – Photography in Switzerland, and a member of the Academic Council of Geneva University of Art and Design.

About Cécile Monnier

Cécile Monnier (*1982, lives and works in Lausanne) is a freelance photographer. She has a Bachelor’s degree in sociology, a CFC and a higher vocational diploma in photography from the CEPV, as well as a Master’s degree in Visual Art from EDHEA. Active in architectural and art photography, she teaches in various schools. She has exhibited in Sion, Martigny, Fribourg and Basel. Her work has also been recognised in the Young Talent Award for Photography 2020. In 2022 she was the winner of the Enquête Photographique Fribourgeoise, with her project des nuits sans silence.