(re)connecting.earth (03) – Sensitive resources

The (re)connecting.earth (03) – Sensitive Resources biennial brings together art and science to explore the critical issues surrounding natural resources.

Since 2021, the (re)connecting.earth Biennale has sought to rekindle a connection and deepen our attention to nature in the city, through the work of artists. This third edition, entitled Sensitive Resources, focuses on natural resources: their nature, their uses, and what they mean for our everyday lives.

Twenty artists present more than fifty works — installations, photographs, sculptures, instruction-works and videos — unfolding from the Eaux-Vives station to the Comédie de Genève, through to the Villa du Parc, along the Voie verte.

The works offer an approach to natural resources that we often know only by name, or whose uses we barely grasp. They invite us to visualise them in indirect, sometimes poetic ways, and to take in the effects of their exploitation on ecosystems, while reawakening an attentiveness to our immediate surroundings.

Through the translation of forms, the compilation of images and the act of staging, the artists propose alternative readings of exchanges and the mechanisms of extraction, transformation and consumption, as well as their effects.

They make perceptible complex processes that are often far removed from our direct experience. These proposals also open up perspectives on the political and economic systems within which these resources exist, and on the relationships they maintain with the environments they transform. Are they, in the end, truly such a blessing?

Whether inside the Comédie de Genève or the Villa du Parc, on the screens of the Eaux-Vives and Chêne-Bourg stations, or along the Voie verte in Chêne-Bougeries and Thônex, the works invite us to slow down, to observe, and to reconsider the place we occupy within these flows of resources.

To extend these experiences and reflections, a programme of workshops, talks and screenings accompanies the six weeks of the exhibition.

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The Voie Verte as Exhibition Space

In 2026, the Biennale takes place along the Voie Verte running from the Eaux-Vives station to Annemasse. This active mobility infrastructure also offers spaces that are particularly conducive to biodiversity.

Along this route, a selection of public artworks and biodiversity sites accompanies the Biennale, inviting a renewed attention to the urban environment. The path unfolds across the partner municipalities of Geneva, Chêne-Bougeries and Thônex, weaving together art, nature and the everyday rhythms of the city.

In public space, artworks accompany our daily movements to the point where they can sometimes fade from our awareness. Present for years, they become familiar elements of the urban landscape, their artistic dimension gradually receding over time. The (re)connecting.earth Biennale proposes to look at them anew, framing them through a fresh lens — that of natural resources.

While few public artworks directly address these issues, they are nonetheless deeply bound up with them. Through their materials — stone, metal, wood — through their making, their transport, or their placement within a given urban context, they bear witness to processes of extraction, transformation and use that run through our societies. What we perceive as form or presence in space is also the result of material chains that often remain invisible.

By slowing down our gaze, these works re-emerge as points of attention, capable of prompting new questions about how we inhabit, transform and share natural resources. Together with the natural pockets discovered along the way, they compose a terrain of observation where art and environment meet.