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f&d
cartier
Wait
and See: A Retrospective
22 June –
27 July 2013
Artist
Talk / Preview Friday 21 June 2012, 5.30 – 8.30pm
Admission
free
Following
on from the UK Premiere of Wait and See at Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of
Photography, Ffotogallery
is delighted to present a specially commissioned retrospective exhibition of
work reflecting developments in the practice of Swiss artist duo f&d
cartier over the past decade. The exhibition is also accompanied by a new artist
monograph published by Ffotogallery.
Photography
is fundamentally a time-based medium, not just in the camera’s ability to
capture a moment in time and commit it to memory, but also because of a photograph’s embodiment of space in time; its imprinting of
duration. The earliest photographic processes, whether Fox Talbot’s chemically
treated papers or Daguerre’ silvered plates, required lengthy exposures and the
resulting images were essentially durational in nature, each photograph formed
by the accretion of many impressions over time.
These elements converge in the art of f&d
cartier, two Swiss artists living and working in
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Since 1995 they have merged their respective
practices, fine art and photography, and created a unified artistic identity in
order to discover new approaches. Examining the indispensable prerequisites for
analogue photography, light and photosensitive paper, they mainly make
‘camera-less’ works incorporating found objects. Two bodies of work featured in
this exhibition, Wait and See and Veni
Etiam, exemplify their minimalist
tendencies, and provide a meditation on perception, experience and the passing
time. The exhibition also includes the piece Boys do not Cry, from a series of
photogram-based works called Roses, which explores the themes of
time, mortality, eroticism, gender and identity.
A
Ffotogallery project funded by Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council), Swiss
Cultural Fund in Britain and Swisslos Culture Canton de Berne, in partnership
with Departure Lounge and University of Hertfordshire.
Ffotogallery,
Turner House, Plymouth Rd, Penarth, CF64 3DH
Open Tues
– Sat, 11am – 5pm
029 2070
8870
info@ffotogallery.org
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