The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2024

The Federal Office of Culture has announced the winners of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2024 competition, as voted for by a jury of international experts. The Scheidegger & Spiess title Pauline Julier. And so on, a single universe is one of the winners! Congratulations to everyone involved in the making of the book–we couldn’t be happier!

Pauline Julier, born in 1981, graduated in political sciences from the Université Grenoble Alpes and in photography from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles; she also completed the SPEAP Art and Politics Experimental Program at Sciences Po in Paris. Her multimedia works featured in this book take us through the geological ages of planet Earth and into space. At the interface of documentary and fiction, Julier takes us on a dizzying journey through space and time. She interweaves different histories and combines natural disasters with the Anthropocene’s paradigm shifts. Looking into the past and the future, Julier investigates highly topical questions about the unlimited use of natural resources, escapism, and the colonization of space.