Casting (Swiss Stories 2015, by François Schaer) - Swiss Press Award
Exposition ville de Lancy
François Schaer
Casting is a series about objects. By definition, these tell a whole series of stories... I visited the reserves of several Swiss museums: the Swiss National Museum in Affoltern, the Natural History Museum in Geneva, and the Museum of the History of Science in Geneva. The undisplayed museum object allowed me to work on the decontextualization of the object: when it is not shown in its usual function or state, the viewer is confronted with a loss of reference points and information, which consequently broadens the range of possible interpretations. He is therefore invited to interpret, to imagine the missing pieces of the puzzle in order to recreate a story around the image presented.
