On a winter morning in Lausanne, the echo of melting alpine snow carries through an exhibition hall rather than down mountain slopes. Within the walls of Pyxis, a space devoted to cultural exploration and digital creativity, an urgent question hangs in the air: what if the snow never returns? In our minds’ eye, the eternal snows of the Alps have been as constant as the city’s historic spires—but now that certainty is slipping like ice into the river.
The exhibition, running through March 28, gathers six Swiss artists whose works serve as both mirror and lens. Some pieces invite visitors to witness the graceful retreat of glaciers through immersive audio-visual landscapes, while others explore the footprints we leave—not just in snow, but in data, in culture, and in conscience. One installation evokes an aesthetic chorus of ice melting; another uses digital engines to generate imagined postcards from a future where snow fields are memories.
There is a rhythm to the space, a quiet cadence like dripping water, as visitors move from sculpture to soundscape. These artistic interventions do more than depict environmental change—they invite reflection on our relationship with time, place, and the natural world. Snow, once seen as immutable, becomes in these works an emblem of fragility, urging us to consider how quickly what we assumed permanent may dissolve.
Beyond the visual and auditory experience, Pyxis has woven community moments into the exhibition. Attendees can partake in a contemplative meditation beneath a sonic glacier and join in debates and conversations about what the future holds for mountain landscapes long defined by their snowy crowns.
In asking “what if the snow does not return?”, the exhibition does not proffer answers so much as open a space for wondering. It reflects a broader moment of global awareness, where questions of climate, culture, and creativity intersect. And in that intersection lies an invitation: to reimagine not only how we witness change, but how we respond to it.
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Sources : • Swissinfo • laRegione • LFM • blue News • ATS