© Bibliothek am Guisanplatz, Bern/Switzerland
Denise Bertschi: Oasis of Peace. Neutral Only On The Outside
12/09/2021 - 14/11/2021
Centre culturel suisse
32-38, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
75003 Paris
www.ccsparis.com
The exhibition Oasis of peace. Neutral only on the outside establishes unexpected links between Switzerland and two regions of major geopolitical importance: firstly, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea; and secondly, apartheid South Africa. Switzerland has played its cards cleverly, in both cases, using to its own ends a “neutrality” that the historian Hans-Ulrich Jost has characterized as “self-serving“ and “dualist“.
Centre culturel suisse
32-38, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
75003 Paris
www.ccsparis.com
The exhibition Oasis of peace. Neutral only on the outside establishes unexpected links between Switzerland and two regions of major geopolitical importance: firstly, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea; and secondly, apartheid South Africa. Switzerland has played its cards cleverly, in both cases, using to its own ends a “neutrality” that the historian Hans-Ulrich Jost has characterized as “self-serving“ and “dualist“.