Join us to meet artist Massao Mascaro and explore his exhibition Ici, Là.
During the Swiss Month of Photography festival, meet artist Massao Mascaro and discover his new exhibition Ici, Là, presented at the Maison de l’Enfance et de l’Adolescence of the HUG.
His work blends poetry, politics, and territory. His projects are rooted both in travel and long walks, as well as in the attentive observation of everyday life. Altogether, his practice explores the ways in which the intimate is interwoven with movement, memory, and space.
The exhibition Here, There brings into dialogue two photographic series, created over several years between Geneva and Brussels, each expressing a distinct relationship to time. Since becoming a parent, Mascaro has placed particular emphasis on attentive observation of daily life—its repetition and duration—as central elements of his artistic practice.
The first series follows the Rhône along the Geneva riverbanks. The grey mirror of the water distorts shapes and light, creating the vision of a strange aquatic garden. Devoid of any human presence, these images oscillate between contemplation and allegory: the flow of water becomes a metaphor for the passage of time.
The second series shifts the gaze to the domestic interior of the family apartment in Brussels, where the kitchen table appears after meals. A recurring motif in the history of art, the table here becomes an accumulation of memory and the subtle chronicle of family life. Without staging, the artist captures what remains accidentally in place.
By confronting the river’s flow with the table’s stillness, the exterior with the interior, Geneva with Brussels, the artist highlights the value of the everyday, the ordinary, and the non-event—and invites us to contemplate what usually escapes our attention.
In collaboration with the Centre de la Photographie Genève
