Video: Swisslos

This exhibition was designed by a majority privileged museum team with no experience of racism. In order to bring in more knowledge, dialogue and diversity, the exhibition was accompanied by an “Advisory Board”. This advisory committee is made up of people from different specialisms and backgrounds. They are all characterised by an in-depth engagement with topics such as racial discrimination, exclusion and belonging or decolonisation – always with reference to art and Switzerland.

Omar Ba is a visual artist from Dakar who lives in Geneva. With the monumental work Devoir de mémoire, which was produced especially for the exhibition, Omar Ba poses the question of the after-effects of the spirit of domination in post-colonialism. How is humanity expressed in art?

Sasha Huber (*1975) is an internationally successful visual artist who lives in Finland. She began her work by exploring her Swiss-Haitian roots through colonial history. She later expanded this approach to include post-colonial histories and realities. For the exhibition Stranger in the Village, Sasha Huber has produced several new works, such as the portraits of Angélique Beldner, Switzerland’s first Black female daily newsreader, and of Vincent O. Carter, artist and author of the book Meine weisse Stadt und ich. Das Bernbuch. In doing so, she makes people visible who were the first Black people to pave the way in various areas of society. Sasha Huber is also a member of the Advisory Board that was put together for this exhibition.