F&D Cartier
contemporary experimental photography
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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, …

New publication F&D Cartier The Never Taken Images. Photographic Paper Archive

• Publishers

Scheidegger & Spiess Zurich

Thomas Kramer, Director

• Design

Balmer Hählen Lausanne

Priscilla Balmer, Yvo Hählen / Julien Le Goff

• Essays

Kathrin Schönegg, Berlin Thilo Koenig, Roma

Both renowned photographic historians with longstanding interests in abstract photography, are

contextualizing our work Wait and See into historical and contemporary experimental photographic art

• Repros Phase One

Swiss Foundation for Photography Winterthur Digital lab _Facsimile repros

Peter Pfrunder, Director / Katharina Rippstein, Head Image Archive

• Acquired partnerships for future exhibitions/book presentation/lectures/conference >April 2022< :

o Book launching « F&D Cartier The never taken images. Photographic Paper Archive » Never Stop Reading Zurich

o Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. Traveling exhibition "Mining Photography-The ecological footprint of

photography" _Catalogue 15.07 - 31.10.2022

o DZ BANK Kunststiftung Frankfurt. Exhibition " Passagen " & Acquisition Wait and See installation > permanent DZ

Bank Kunststiftung Kunstsammlung, contemporary photographic collection. 01.06. – 15.10.2022 _Catalogue

o Eikon Magazin Wien, inclusion, book review « F&D Cartier The Never… » September 2022 edition.

o Hapax Magazine London, book review « F&D Cartier The Never… » 2022

o Universität der Angewandte Kunst, Wien > book presentation, talk 2023

o Gewerbemuseum Winterthur Traveling exhibition "Mining Photography. The ecological footprint of photography »

_Catalogue 2023

o Kunst Haus Wien - Museum Hundertwasser. Traveling exhibition "Mining Photography. The ecological footprint of

photography" _Catalogue 2023

- The authors F&D Cartier and Scheidegger & Spiess, would be very pleased to interest you in this project for future

collaborations. Welcome are partnerships with photographic institutions, museums, galleries and foundations

committed to and interested in historical and contemporary photography, in order to present our work in

exhibitions and promote the artist book « F&D Cartier. The Never Taken Images. Photographic Paper Archive ».

• Contacts

fdcartier@bluewin.ch www.fdcartier.ch @fdcartier @thenevertakenimages

Cartier DanielScheidegger & Spiess Publishers