F&D Cartier
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F&D Cartier Françoise et Daniel Cartier Via unique one off creations of photo-based woks in constant transformation, we question the sense of the image, memory and lost, Time. We experimentally probe the essence of photography, its fundamentals, light, photosensitive materials, the turning point of analogue photography to digital >post-digital photography.
Minimalist experiments and performance, found objects, work without a camera, darkroom or chemicals > Wait and See, 1998 – Today : on-going research, in-situ installations of expired photosensitive materials exposed directly to the light of the exhibition spaces, luminograms left in perpetual transformation, left unfixed. The shared experience engages the audience to face reality instead of looking at a picture, invites them to be patient, and the history of photography is retraced, echoing subjectively the historical and artistic collateral events of the 19th and 20th centuries, by selecting for each iteration of our installations expired photographic materials (1870-1990), from various sources (900 different ones), depending on the singular situation of each exhibition space, in particular its history, topography, location, …

ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE à ARLES Visite-rencontre 6.7.2023
ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE à ARLES Visite-rencontre 6.7.2023

Visite-rencontre suivie de deux tables rondes entre chercheur es, commissaires et artistes

Des scientifiques et des artistes, mais aussi des membres de la société civile et politique, évoquent sans cesse l'effondrement de la civilisation thermo-industrielle. Les pandémies, le dérèglement climatique, les collapses énergétiques et/ou économiques et politiques sont des phénomènes de plus en plus présents dans nos vies.

L'ENSP, comme école d'art dédiée aux images, a la responsabilité de s'interroger sur la nature de ses enseignements face à ces bouleversements à l'échelle mondiale, ainsi que sur la nécessité d'explorer de nouveaux récits qui nous permettent d'imaginer d'autres relations entre la science, les savoirs et les arts, entre l'hémisphère Nord et les Suds.

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New Publication by Scheidegger & Spiess Zurich F&D Cartier "THE NEVER TAKEN IMAGES"
New Publication by Scheidegger & Spiess Zurich F&D Cartier "THE NEVER TAKEN IMAGES"

The Never Taken Images documents a unique long-term project that Swiss photographers Françoise and Daniel Cartier have been pursuing since 1998. They have put together a vast collection of unfixed photographic papers, glass negatives, and films, mostly dating from 1880 to 1990. Samples of these are mounted and displayed, and, over the course of several exhibitions, exposed to light, causing them to evolve towards color saturation. Instead of looking at still images, the Cartiers’ installations, titled Wait and See, allow viewers to perceive a kind of reality for themselves.

This book features the entire test catalog that the Cartiers have put together to date, showing some 900 different papers and photosensitive supports. These facsimiles offer an almost real impression of their formats, colors, and materiality. Essays by photo historian and curator Kathrin Schönegg and scholar of art history and critic Thilo Koenig supplement the images and place the Wait and See project in the art historical and technological context of abstract media art. The Never Taken Images also celebrates the industrially manufactured photosensitive support, representing the centrality of the long pre-digital period in the history of photography.

 

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