The project Meteor Ghosts, by Geneva-based artist and photographer Florian Luthi, explores the shifting boundary between reality, memory and myth. The project draws inspiration from the wave of UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) sightings that swept across France in 1954, particularly along the French-Swiss border. At the time, the press reported strange lights, apparitions and mysterious encounters, often dismissed as mere fear and speculation. One of these memorable stories comes from Prémanon (a French commune in the Jura department), where four children, including Raymond Romand, claimed to have seen a luminous object, described as a large sugar cube resting on three legs. Although subsequently denied, the story had already taken root in local folklore.
By revisiting the landscapes of his childhood – mist-shrouded forests, deserted villages and the silent Jura mountains – Florian Luthi creates a photographic narrative in which truth wavers and legends endure. Through archive material and documentary images, the artist blurs the boundaries between this news item and the fiction it spawned, transforming the region into a visual investigation where memory, myth and reality converge.
A collaboration with Fondation Convergences.
