The exhibition links works of origins, temporalities and various materials, from the Barbier-Mueller collections or shaped by Jacques Kaufmann. An exhibition the project was built around rapprochements between parts selected in the Barbier-Mueller collections and works that Jacques Kaufmann has produced in his workshop and in the world, on long times, trying to identify the meeting points Like deviations.

The viewer making the table, this exhibition links works of origins, temporalities, various materials, so that the visitor recreates for himself his own correspondences, enriching the proposed resonances.

An objects of objects of various origins, all more remarkable than the others, the Barbier-Mueller museum brings together a collection internationally recognized as a high place of so-called "primitive", or "distant arts", according to the variation of Time terminologies.

Ceramics, which is part of the field of contemporary art and its contextual practices, also seeks to meet what makes permanence and differences within human expressions, through time and space. In the field of arts, the past does not really pass. The forms reactivate, re-emerge, reappropriate one and the other, find themselves.

The differences, correspondence, conjunctions, analogies, intervals between works make it possible to perceive everything that can help make effective this collective effort of humanity over time to meet its basic spiritual needs. The permanence and movements of forms contradict the concept of progress in art.


This exhibition is the program of the 50th Congress of the International Ceramic Academy organized by Swissceramics, which will be held at the International Congress Center in Geneva from September 12 to 16, 2022 on the theme "Melting Pot. From alchemical crucible to cultural crucible ”. This event is accompanied by 35 major exhibitions organized by museums and partner galleries in Romandie.