Les Bains invites you to travel down the Rhône and back in time as photographer Fred Boissonnas takes you on a journey across the Mediterranean in the footsteps of Homer’sOdyssey.
The exhibition retraces the investigation carried out by the Genevan photographer and scientist Victor Bérard to locate the itinerary of Ulysses, the gods’ battered hero, from Marseilles to Djerba, from Gibraltar to Ithaca. As a translator of theOdyssey, Bérard was convinced he could find the places in the Mediterranean that would have inspired Homer to imagine the adventures of Ulysses. For him, the key to poetry lies in the shapes of the Mediterranean coastline, in the crash of waves on rocks, in the force of wind and sea currents. They’ll bring back hundreds of images to prove it…