Davos is a Verb: Davos-born photographer Jules Spinatsch takes us on a fascinating trip into this parallel universe: along the converted promenade into bars and hotels, churches and museums where parties, press conferences and even spiritual sessions are hosted. Using conceptual and investigative artistic strategies, Spinatsch documents the self-portrayals of the financial, technological and economic elite and reveals a disturbing phenomenon: the temporary appropriation of public infrastructure for the private events of corporations. Davos Is a Verb presents the result of Spinatsch’s infiltration with ironic distance, adding a new chapter to his photobook classic

Temporary Discomfort I–V (2005): for which the photographer went to the World Economic Forum and also attended the G8 summits at Davos and Evian. But rather than street fighting and handshakes, Jules Spinatsch shows winter nights in Davos, complete with floodlighted barbed wire, containers being used as barricades in Genoa, lonely TV reporters outside broadcast vehicles and sleepy guards in New York.