“I saw a frozen country. An isolated and determined generation. A counter-culture on its last legs, but one that is holding out.”
Augustin Rebetez
As part of the Geneva Art Week, the Centre de la photographie Genève invites Swiss artist Augustin Rebetez, who presents Tomorrow Never together with musician REA.
Tomorrow Never brings together photographs taken in Russia between 2018 and 2023 in the regions of the Urals, Siberia, Yakutia and the Far East. Initially invited to take up an artist’s residency in Yekaterinburg, Augustin Rebetez was quickly drawn to the harshness of the winters, the vast distances, but also by the warmth of the people he met. How do young people in the provinces live? What are they like? What is it like to grow up under an authoritarian regime? What can still be created in Russia today? On several occasions, he travelled the length and breadth of the country, taking an interest in local art scenes. At the same time, Russia was turning in on itself – first as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, then of the war of invasion in Ukraine. Through dynamic networks, he shared his work, collaborated with other artists and brought into his practice those who identified with it. A sensitive mapping of a frozen and closed-off territory, a portrait of an isolated yet determined generation, images of a counter-culture on its last legs: Tomorrow Never builds a bridge – fragile yet necessary – between East and West.
For this event, Augustin Rebetez presents this work in the form of a slideshow, accompanied live by the Biel-based musician REA.
