This collaboration has already taken shape in various ways in the run-up to the event. A number of artists have sought advice from our specialists, either to obtain specific explanations about the design of their works relating to Lake Geneva, or to find out more about a particular species. For example, Pascal Mulattieri, president of the ASL, was able to offer his expertise to Flurina Badel and Jérémie Sarbach on a work featuring the Quagga Mussel, while Alexis Pochelon, project manager at the ASL, met Jonathan Delachaux and the Tchan-Zâca collective to help them with their project involving the Cormorant. Our editor-in-chief, Raphaëlle Juge, wrote a response to an «Instruction» by artist Antje Majewski on the subject of the misnamed «weeds». We were also able to put the artists in touch with the cantonal services regarding the applications for authorisation needed to set up works in the public space along the waterfront, or even under the lake.

To mark the occasion, the ASL hosted works by six leading environmental artists in its arcade, representing original voices that demonstrate awareness of and commitment to the environmental crisis.

• Pinar Yoldas imagined a post-human ecosystem in «An Ecosystem of Excess», in which plastic pollution became the source of hybrid organisms.
• Mark Dion used « Birds » to question our need to classify and organise nature, revealing a profoundly anthropocentric view of other forms of life.
• The duo Flurina Badel & Jérémie Sarbach proposed a poetic video installation called« Lost Waters & Found Stairs», focusing on the point of view of fish and the fragmentation of their habitats.
• Several photographs of works by Hans HaackeLife Airbone System«, »Krefelder Abwasser-Tryptychon« and «Rheinwasseraufbereitungsanlag» were also presented, highlighting industrial pollution and biological systems, and illustrating in an engaging way the close links that art can develop with science.
• And finally.., Diana Lelonek presented three dystopian photographs imagining Geneva after Lake Geneva has dried up.

Alongside the exhibition, visitors were also able to look through a microscope at microplastics found on the beaches of Lake Geneva during the Pla'stock study.

Together, these works formed a powerful reflection on the urgent need to protect aquatic environments. The ASL's vision focuses not only on protecting the environment, but also on linking Lake Geneva with culture and society. Lake Geneva is an ideal subject for artistic creativity, and art is a way of raising awareness of environmental issues.