Nathalie Berthod is a French multidisciplinary artist, born in 1976, now based in Switzerland. Her work unfolds at the intersection of photography and writing. For several years, she performed on stage as a juggler and actress in both personal and collaborative productions. In 2014, she chose to leave the performing arts to devote herself entirely to photography and writing. For more than ten years, she has exhibited her photographic work on a regular basis. In 2021, she published her first poetry collection, Do You Speak the Language, with Éditions des Sables. Her first novel, L'Antimonde, has now been completed and is currently being submitted to publishing houses.
Her approach is intuitive and contemplative. For her, photography is not a tool for documenting reality, but a means of shifting it, transforming it, and revealing its areas of uncertainty. Post-production occupies a central place in her practice, which she considers a creative space where new worlds are constructed at the boundary between reality and imagination. Since 2024, she has been developing a practice centred on photogravure and chine collé, driven by a desire to reconnect with the materiality of the image. The process of hand-printing with ink and collage extends her research by reintroducing gesture, slowness, and materiality into the heart of her work.
Exhibitions
Group Photogravure Exhibition
Galerie Trajets, Carouge
1–25 October 2026
Group Photogravure Exhibition
Galerie Hortus, Petit-Lancy
17–23 May 2027
«Map to Nowhere» – Kugler Gallery, Geneva
12–25 April 2027
Opening Reception: Wednesday, 14 April
Closing Reception: Sunday, 25 April
«Map to Nowhere» is a project that explores the transformation of images and landscapes. Drawing on photographs taken in abandoned places or on the margins of everyday life, Nathalie Berthod develops a process of metamorphosis combining photogravure, chine collé, and rephotography. Fragments of old maps, newspapers, botanical or anatomical plates, and texts enrich the image without illustrating the place itself, instead opening it to new interpretations. Through these successive passages from one medium to another, landscapes are transformed into mental spaces where memory, geography, and imagination converge.
