Curated by Ana Šćepanović.

In 2023, Delphine Schacher, Swiss photographer was given carte blanche by « Palp festival » (Valais) on the theme of funeral rites. Delphine decided to collaborate with a small group of « Val de Bagnes » residents who had lost a loved one and wished to honor their memory through a creative process. 

Using archival photographs chosen by the residents, they created portraits using the cyanotype technique. This is one of the oldest non-silver monochrome processes, dating back to the middle of the 19th century and enabling us to create an image using sunlight. Today’s mountain flowers are superimposed on images of vanished lives. 

Like memory inscribed in time, the flowers leave their imprint on these memories of a time gone by, evoking both the delicacy of maintaining memories and the strength of the cycle of life. This collaborative, contemporary creation takes the form of a “Garden of Remembrance”, sprouting organic portraits honoring the deceased in the world of the living.

This exhibition was made possible thanks to the Swiss Embassy in Belgrade.

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