Visits are possible at Espace Ami-Lullin from Monday to Friday from 8.00 to 18.00, depending on the availability of the facilitators. Visits are possible at Maison de l’enfance et de l’adolescence on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Thursdays from 8.00 to 17.30, depending on the availability of the facilitators. Registrations are made exclusively via the online form for each exhibition.

Since October 2025, the Centre de la photographie Genève has also been offering workshops in schools in the canton of Geneva, which aim at promoting a better understanding of the role of images in today’s society. The programme for ESI and ESII levels focuses on self-representation through photography in the age of social media, or on how photographs are shared online and personal data. The programme for primary levels (AC, SP, 4-8P) focuses on image interpretation and out-of-frame elements, or on self-representation through photography in the age of social media.

Information on workshops for ESI and ESII levels can be found on thr website of Ecole&Culture website (direct link). Information and registration for primary levels can be found on the Ecole&Culture website (link to the complete catalogue of activities).

The photographer invited her friends and family to share meals in the same garden or invited herself into other people’s gardens, then collected the leftovers—wilted bouquets of flowers, crumbs, abandoned dishes—which she carefully rearranged, like the early stages of a contemporary still life. The artist then sets up her camera, programmed to take pictures in her absence using a motion detector. The camera remains in position, sometimes overnight, sometimes for a week, open to the possibility that an animal will enter the frame, allowing this suspended moment to be captured.

The title Plates I–XXXI refers not only to the laid table but also to the plates in old art books, thus evoking the history of art as well as that of everyday life. The series playfully celebrates a discreet coexistence: the one we share with familiar animals that we no longer really see. Through her images, Lia Darjes invites us to rediscover the simple beauty of a shared world, the extraordinary coexistence of humans and non-humans.

Topics covered during the visit (adapted to suit the age of the pupils):

• Observation and perception: how does the photographer transform an ordinary moment into a subject worthy of attention? How can art help us to be attentive and mindful of our environment?
• Coexistence and the human-animal relationship: how does the artist visually convey the boundary—or continuity—between human and animal gestures? In what way do her images reflect how we share the same space with other humans and non-humans?
• Artistic process and creative approach: what is a still life? In what ways do Lia Darjes‘ compositions fit into this classic genre while also redefining it? How does the artist navigate between staging and spontaneity? How did she set up the technical aspects of the camera trap?

The subjects and fields covered during the visit include (depending on the age of the pupils):

• Contemplation, sensible perception
• Cohabitation and the relationship between humans and animals
• Still life, staging, art history
• Photographic trap, photography, art

The detailed description of the exhibition and the education programme is available (in French) as a PDF file.

The images in the Eranos archives were collected between 1920 and 1950 by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, who lived in Ascona, near Monte Verità. Interested in spirituality and symbols, she built up this archive to support research into archetypes, particularly that of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung and his theory of the collective unconscious. For her, these images bore witness to a deep symbolic memory, common to different cultures and eras. In this first collaborative project, in a format combining a critical essay and a photographic installation, Keller and Suter reexamine the Eranos archives and offer a new interpretation. While these archives remain fascinating, they are also based on a complex and universalist vision which, with hindsight, appears to be linked to the authoritarian ideologies of their time. In Uqbaroxy, Zoe A. Keller and Batia Suter invite us to question how images from the past can be reinterpreted today. They view archives as a space for reflection and introduce the notion of the “anarcharchetype,” a neologism combining the words anarchy and archetype, in order to propose a more open and less rigid approach to images.

The visits address some of the central issues of the exhibition in an accessible and age-appropriate way. The number and complexity of the themes vary according to the age of the pupils. It does not directly include images of violence or images likely to be shocking to young audiences. In all cases, the visit is based on the work made by the artists.

Questions addressed during the visit include, depending on the age of the pupils:

• Working with archives: what is a photographic archive and what is its primary purpose? How can existing images be used to develop an artistic project? What distance should be maintained from documents from another era?
• Context of the Eranos archives: what was Monte Verità and what kind of life or experiences were people seeking to find there? What was the political climate like at the beginning of the 20th century? How can images bear witness to the historical and social context of an era?
• Symbols and the power of images: what are archetypes and anarchetypes? Why are symbols so fascinating, and what are their limits? How can images support a political ideology?
• Images and the meaning we give them: what happens when we juxtapose images? How does the meaning we give to them change depending on their association and context?

Depending on the age of the pupils, the subjects and themes covered during the visit include:

• Photographic archives, documents
  History, anthropology, visual culture
  Photography, visual arts, text

For elementary and middle school students, the tour includes an activity based on reproductions from the Eranos archives. This invites students to explore image associations and question the meaning we attribute to photographs.

The detailed description of the exhibition and the education programme is available (in French) as a PDF file.