Centre de la Photographie Genève and Focale are teaming up for two exceptional artist studio visits.

Bernard Tullen is a Geneva-based artist who trained as a painter at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuels de Genève (now HEAD). At the beginning of his career, Tullen was intrigued by images and how they constitute an instrument of our knowledge of the world. Using mainly press images, he collected, enlarged, scanned or revealed their frames – revealing certain illusionary mechanisms.

Borrowing investigative methods from photographers, he takes a subjective look at the life of George Montandon, a controversial Swiss figure. The result of this research is a mixture of paintings, drawings, lead photographs and cyanotypes.

He is currently interested in the fluxes that cross territories (movements of people, water, air, energy, matter and even information), and through various projects he explores the different scales of time and movement that coexist in the world. On the one hand, slow geological processes, such as the movement of glaciers, erosion and landslides, and the slow migration of plant species in response to climate change, transform landscapes. On the other hand, phenomena on a subatomic scale, such as the movement of neutrinos at speeds close to the speed of light, are a reminder of the existence of a universe where physical laws take on an almost abstract dimension. Walking, as a mode of travel, occupies a median position, linking these temporalities. It offers a way of apprehending the territory on a human scale.

Bernard Tullen has shown his work in numerous exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany, France and Belgium, including at ISELP in Brussels, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, Raum für Kunst in Aachen, Art Brussels, Galerie Deplhine Courtay, Strasbourg and Galerie Michel Föex, Geneva.

Tuesday 24 September from 18:00 to 19:30. In French

Places are limited, and registration is required by emailing cpg@centrephotogeneve.ch. The address of the artist's studio will be sent by email to those who register.