Switch the Witch

'SWITCH THE WITCH' is a collective and multidisciplinary exhibition involving Swiss and international art realities and addresses the theme of otherness, mutation, transformation and magical realism through a transfeminist point of view.

TOMBOYS DON'T CRY invites a plurality of artists to explore different scenarios of language and visual arts through installation, sound, sculpture, video, and editorial productions in a prospective of pluralist, purposeful, and sensitive resistance rooted in intersectional transfeminist queer research whose aim is to bring together the Swiss artistə involved with a panorama of international collaborations in a dialogue that triggers visions, considerations, and ideas about the future.

The works in the exhibition propose unconventional ways of remembering and connecting, offering space to describe oneself, through emotions and insights, rituals, collective happenings and reclaim the figure of the witch and the 'other' in opposition to the stereotypical representation provided throughout History. We owe to these hunted, accused, tortured and burned feminists the tremendous advances in socio-political and gender issues. They speak to us about health, the body, medicine, self-discovery and rejection of the established order, reconcile us with nature, transgress norms, and remind us that it is not always easy to claim access to knowledge and develop non-academic skills.

SWITCH THE WITCH gives precedence to expressions of sisterhood, difference, the supernatural, creativity and ceremony as a path to healing and reminds us how the trauma inherited from History continues to affect us today.

Curated by Tomboys don’t cry
Lou Masduraud, Evo Jovicic, Riikka Tauri, Marta Margnetti&Giada Olivotto, Alieni, Dafne Boggeri, Good Witch, Industria Indipendente, Lucile Olympe Haute, Nygel Panasco, TOMBOYS DON’T CRY/Wet Mess, Wretched Flowers.