Les rives du silence is a cartographic investigation into the Genevan shoreline of its lake. By cross-referencing environmental data from the Geneva Territorial Information System (SITG) with the land registry and investigative journalism databases, the project documents what private waterfront parcels do to a living environment that overflows them.
At the local scale, the map measures the materiality of each parcel: soil composition (grass, forest, built structures, paths), the proportion of shoreline that is artificial or natural, tree cover, the presence of remarkable trees — all indicators that determine, parcel by parcel, the regional ecological continuity that the canton seeks to restore through its Geneva Biodiversity Strategy 2030.
At the global scale, the work documents the origins of the fortunes that own these parcels: private banks under prosecution by the public prosecutor, heirs to perfume and luxury industries, Gulf fortunes, post-Soviet oligarchs, shell companies. The shore is the place where globally constituted capital encloses a living world that overflows it.