Last exhibition
Mutants
2025-26
Brissago Islands
Movement, becoming, transformation – these are key words that can enable us to approach the process implemented by Daniel Pittet. What happens in his photographs? The starting point are distinct organisms, although rare or exotic. Organisms with evocative names – Euphorbia pulcherrima, Phlomis fruticosa, … – but still scientifically described, catalogued, named. Then, the objective gaze loses its footing and gives way to the photographer’s eye; which captures the complexity and, at the same time, the singularity. The absolute and alienating beauty of the detail. Detail that is then extracted from its context and isolated (or, one might say, exalted) on a black field, and that in this process acquires its own autonomy and its own life. And each organism grows, changes, reveals itself; it becomes a precious tissue, a feather, a chalice. Mutant. And the spectator, moving from room to room, from photograph to photograph, has the privilege of witnessing this becoming and of contemplating, sometimes with a small thrill, the fascinating and mysterious result.
Veronica Provenzale, art historian
Other exhibitions
Centovalli and Pedemonte Regional Museum, Intragna – Galleria del Canvetto luganese, Fondazione Diamante, Lugano
Fnac Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland – Geneva Public Library, Switzerland – Librairie du Vieux Comté bookstore, Bulle, Switzerland – Villa San Quirico, Munisio, Ticino, Switzerland – Raconte-moi la terre bookstore, Lyon, France
Collective Cartes Postales
2024-25
Gallery TraceEcart Bulle
Anniversary of Trace-Ecart (40 years) and Altitudes (25 years).
Ceramics by Pauline Tornare
2024
Salamander Festival, Morges
Colour and black and white photographs.
Mountain spirits – 山野之灵
2024
Fujifilm X-Space Gallery, Shanghai
An invitation to take a deep look at the world around us, to observe our environment intensely, to penetrate visible matter in order to detect its inner essence and draw nourishment from it. It is also a hymn to the beauty of the world, an incitement to contemplate it and to respect its sacred and precious nature.
Curated by Salt Lin Chaoyang
Mountain spirits
2023-2025
Gruyère Museum, Bulle
An invitation to take a deep look at the world around us, to observe our environment intensely, to penetrate visible matter in order to detect its inner essence and draw nourishment from it. It is also a hymn to the beauty of the world, an incitement to contemplate it and to respect its sacred and precious nature.
Color photographs
Music by Sara Oswald
Book published by Slatkine Geneva and AS Verlag Zurich
Lighting by C. Mauron
Moving down or not?
2013
Centovalli and Pedemonte Regional Museum, Intragna – Galleria del Canvetto luganese, Fondazione Diamante, Lugano
Color photographs on the theme of adapting to climate change in the Mustang District (Nepal), in connection with a project by the NGO Kam For Sud.
Jindagi, Himalayan lives and destinies
2006
Fnac Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland – Geneva Public Library, Switzerland – Librairie du Vieux Comté bookstore, Bulle, Switzerland – Villa San Quirico, Munisio, Ticino, Switzerland – Raconte-moi la terre bookstore, Lyon, France
Jindagi, Himalayan lives and destinies – Black and white photographs, coinciding with the release of the book of the same name.
The skin of things
2000
Altitudes Festival, Bulle
Color macro photographs, in collaboration with painter Jacques Cesa.
First edition of the Altitudes Festival, former convent of La Part Dieu.
Caribbean rum distilleries
1996
Gallery Espace Pertuis, Fribourg
Black and white photographs, with Olivier Matter.
Different perspectives on Nepal
1996
Espace Pertuis Gallery, Fribourg
Color photographs, with Nicolas Würsdoerfer.
