JUNO
Archives Sensibles, Lausanne
5 June 2025 - 28 June 2025

latifa echakhch: juno

 

A FLIPPING, TIMELESS MEETING

JUNO is an invitation to travel through time, to explore memory and its fragments in a place doomed to disappear. From June 5 to 28, 2025, a former artist’s studio at 14 Avenue Tivoli will open one last time before its demolition to host a group exhibition bringing together established and emerging artists, including Latifa Echakhch, Adrien Chevalley, Eliot Möwes, and Alice Guittard. Across more than 250 m² of unfinished space, the exhibition sketches a sensitive journey where time, memory, and forgetting intersect, far from institutional frameworks.

JUNO: MEMORY ON THE VERGE OF FORGETTING
As contemporary heirs to a memory that surpasses our daily lives, what do we really know about the history that surrounds us? What do our habits, our rites, our names hide?

In the past, the month of June honored the goddess Juno, sister and wife of Jupiter, sovereign and protector of the Roman people. What about today? Her figure spans the ages, empires, and is reinvented through her representations. Depending on her epithets, Juno can be the guardian of homes, protector of births, of marriage, or even the harbinger of danger. But the memory of her myth is not that of her cult, and the more we seek to freeze her history, the more we betray it.

Today, we have infinite resources for retaining and transmitting information. Yet, memory cannot be confined. Memory is at once object, narrative, transmission, and sensation. To transcribe memory is to betray it.

The JUNO exhibition uses the month of June as a backdrop to explore our relationship with memory and remembrance. It summons the mythological figure of Juno to guide us through the cycles of life: birth, childhood, the discovery of love, but also the loss of bearings, confusion, and forgetting.

Like the summer solstice, the works brought together in this exhibition mark a point of alignment between light and darkness, celebration and erasure—a suspended moment
to explore what we choose to remember… or forget.