New Photo Show Spotlights Gen Z on Their Own Terms
There’s everything you think you know about young people. At Photo Elysée, these artists want you to know everything you don’t.
Summary
- Photo Elysée presents Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze, a new exhibition of photography, now on view through February 1 in Lausanne, Switzerland
- The showcase features 66 international artists exploring what it means to be Gen Z today
Gen Z is a tough one to pin down. Despite numerous attempts to cast them as a detached bunch, talk to any one of them, really, and you’ll likely get a different story. The first cohort to come of age in a world marked by digital hyper-connectivity, climate anxiety and an unrelenting stream of political upheaval, a closer look can reveal a cohort shaped by complexity and a willingness to take things into their own hands.
A new photo exhibition at Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland spotlights offers an intimate look into this generation. Now on view through February 1, Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze gathers an international lineup of 66 artist who, in their own words, explore what it means to belong in a world in-flux.
Spanning a constellation of artistic approaches and storytelling modes, the exhibition traces the conditions and sentiments that sculpt Gen Z’s worldview: challenging trivial social norms while proposing new ones, shifting understandings of body and gender, the importance of chosen family and means of navigating overlapping identities. Putting young voices first, the showcase paints a portrait of a group, who, in the institution’s words, are “questioning the world around them while striving to define their place within it.”
Featured artists:
Delali Ayivi
Chloé Azzopardi
Hidhir Badaruddin
Daveed Baptiste
Clara Belleville
Sara Benabdallah
Jeremy Chih-Hao Chuang
River Claure
Thaddé Comar
Matthieu Croizier
Sara De Brito Faustino
Alina Frieske
Claudia Fuggetti
Florian Gatzweiler
Sascha Levin
Devashish Gaur
Valerie Geissbühler Pacheco
Toma Gerzha
Mahalia Taje Giotto
Salomé Gomis-Trezise
Lea Greub
Pia-Paulina Guilmoth
Marvel Harris
Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo
Lorane Hochstätter
Ben Hubert
Francesca Hummler
Matej Jurčević
Lisa Karnadi
Nur Aishah Kenton
Mayssa Khoury
Ahmed Khirelsid
Maria Kniaginin-Ciszewska
Jude Lartey
Phương Nguyên Lê
Quil Lemons
Yun Ping Li
Margaret Liang
Vuyo Mabheka
Isabella Madrid
Luna Mahoux
Gabriela Marciniak
Dimakatso Mathopa
Sara Messinger
Steven Molina Contreras
Cheryl Mukherji
Daniel Obasi
Alice Pallot
Laurence Philomène
Soyeohang Rai
Carla Rossi
Emma Sarpaniemi
Rachel Seidu
Fatimazohra Serri
Suwa Shin
Charlie Tallott
D. M. Terblanche
Agate Tūna
Varvara Uhlik
Farren van Wyk
Tianyu Wang
Ziyu Wang
Noyan
Sophia Wilson
Zhidong Zhang
Andong Zheng
Photo Elysée
Pl. de la Gare 17,
1003 Lausanne,
Switzerland
