February 2025
Cécile Monnier's work questions the ways in which human practices and personal memories shape our relationship with ‘nature’. By combining photography and installation, she is looking for new ways of learning to see living things and rethinking our relationship with them. The exhibition presents two works that explore Cécile Monnier's personal and artistic reflections on the relationship between man and nature. In ‘Tout est fichu comme un sandwich à la soupe’, she looks at the practice of fly fishing - a symbolic interface between humans and their environment. She is interested in the way in which anglers care for the habitat that is the river, while at the same time disturbing it. Photographs of hand-made artificial flies, combined with a video installation, question the aesthetics and ambivalence of an activity that connects humans to a habitat and an ecosystem, but also reveals the power relationships and dependencies that are established between them.
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In Antarctic Archives, Janis Polar examines how Antarctica is constructed as the "last untouched natural frontier" - only to break with this image. His work questions the violence of discovery and the geopolitical, ecological and colonial narratives that characterise this continent. In doing so, he sheds light on the role of technological and cultural constructions and the power of images in the perception of natural spaces. Antarctic Archives experiments artistically with entangled interstices, gaps and ambivalences in the writing of history, the present and the future and asks: What are we still measuring the world for?
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During her residency in August 2024 Ieva was interested in exploring the place of endemic and invasive plant species in Biel, their traditional roles as well as their historical, environmental and urban implications. Photoforum invited her back to present the results of her residency in a small presentation. Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, installation and other media. Her work is influenced by her background in architecture, a profound fascination with the built and natural environments as well as different layers of street life. Her practice seeks to uncover the layers of history, culture, ecology and experiences embedded within.
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