Capsule exhibition from 18 March to 21 June 2026

Since 2025, US president Donald Trump has established a growing culture of censorship within the US administration and American cultural institutions. Words and expressions such as ‘climate crisis’, ‘feminism’, ‘gender identity’ and ‘racism’ are described as ‘woke’, the latter term being used in a pejorative sense to refer to positions associated with the progressive left and deemed to be partisan. Trump has banned them from Federal agencies and is targeting museums, among them the Smithsonian Institution. Seen in this light, the bias of the allegedly ‘neutral’ AI systems used by the US administration raises many questions.

The Swiss Camera Museum is displaying a selection of photographs from the Grand Prix Images Vevey archives (preserved at the museum) that might be subject to censorship if US regulations were to be applied in Switzerland.

Open to the public

The exhibition will be open to the public from the grand opening of Les murmures. Une machine à voir, avec et à rebours de l’IA (Murmurs. A seeing machine that uses (and subverts) AI).

Grand opening: Tuesday 17 March, 6 pm