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nstallation, Photography, Video, Book Presentation

September 2 - September 10 - 2022

Book: ”The Never Taken Images. Photographic Paper Archive”, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 07. 2022

In 1998, F&D Cartier began investigating the materiality or photographic paper in a work group entitled Wait and See. For them, the work is an exploration o the rudiments of the medium and a way of engaging with the flood of photographic images produced in the digital age. In their installations, the artists use expired photographic papers dating from the years 1890 to 2000, which have lost some of their sensitivity but still respond to light. Their exposure in the exhibition space triggers an ongoing process of slow change as their appearance constantly alters. Without an recourse to a camera or photochemistry, the duo thus brings to life images that were never taken and examines their potential. At the same time, their radically simplified experiment, designed to record light and time, connects back to the early days of the medium, when developing photographic paper was still unusual and daylight exposure was the principal means of blackening the silver salts. The surprising colors produced by the undeveloped gelatin silver emulsions reveal another invisible aspect of analog photography: in this way, F & D Cartier's experiment conveys a profound sense of the complexity of a material that was ubiquitous in the 20th century. Their experiments with photographic materials, which they embarked on together in 1995, have been devoted to themes relating to remembering, forgetting, and the passing of time.

MK&G MUSEUM HAMBURG “Mining Photography, the ecological footstep …”

Kunststiftung DZ BANK “Passagen”

https://www.mkg-hamburg.de/en/exhibitions/mining-photography

Kunststiftung DZ BANK Frankfurt Installation view 4. Juni 2022 (C) Norbert Miguletz “Passagen” 01.06. - 15.10.2022 PRESS INFORMATION > Wait and See, Frankfurt am Main, 2022 _ 76 teilig 175x700cm

Collection Kunsstiftung DZ BANK Frankfurt _ KATALOG_

DZ BANK Kunstiftung “Passagen” spring 2022

F&D Cartier is very pleased to be part of the announced book of the Swiss Foundation for Photography for its Jubilee, “99 Fotografien”, which will be published by Lars Müller Publishers in Zurich, (it comes along with a second band “Bild für Bild”), they will be presented during the opening and jubilee event on September 18th, 2021, #SAVETHEDATE #fotostiftungschweiz #jubilee #jubilaum #publication #publikation #99fotografien #exhibition #exposition #austellung #larsmuellerpublishers #photographie #fotografie #photography #bilderlust #bilderlast #photobooks #livrephoto #books

concept : Die Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Interlaken zeigt hauptsächlich fotografische Arbeiten. Sie gibt einen Einblick in die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten, die heute von kreativen Künstlern im Bereich «Fotografie» genützt werden.
Ihre Bandbreite reicht von analogen Schwarz-Weiss-Fotografien aus dem Fotolabor mit den klassischen Motiven «Portät», «Landschaft» und «Stillleben» bis zu digitalen, experimentellen Computerarbeiten, die wundersame virtuelle Wesen und Welten abbilden.
Die spezielle Schau wird ergänzt durch Videoarbeiten und Rauminstallationen.

Eröffnung der Ausstellung:
Samstag, 19. Dezember 2020, ab 14 Uhr. Eine Vernissagefeier findet voraussichtlich NICHT statt. Danke für Ihr Verständnis!