Uqbaroxy

With the exhibition “Uqbaroxy,” on display at the Geneva Library (Espace Ami Lullin) from February 19 to May 9, 2026, the Photography Center reinterprets historical archives in light of contemporary practices. The exhibition by Zoe A. Keller, a researcher in visual cultures, and Batia Suter, artist, takes as its starting point the Eranos Archive for Research in Symbolism, compiled between the 1930s and 1950s by Eranos founder Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881-1962) and now held at the Warburg Institute in London. Fröbe-Kapteyn compiled these archives to support research on archetypes and the collective unconscious, particularly that of Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. Fröbe-Kapteyn considered these images to be visual traces of a deep symbolic and religious memory, recurring across cultures and eras. In their first collaborative project, which takes the form of a critical essay and a photographic installation, Keller and Suter question, reactivate, and ultimately reinterpret these complex archives. "Uqbaroxy" addresses the tensions that arise when collections of historical images are reinterpreted in light of contemporary visual and theoretical practices. Keller and Suter approach the Eranos archives as a space for contemporary reflection and as a laboratory for the "anarcharchetype," a neologism they coined by combining the concepts of anarchy and archetype.