«Lieux de mémoire» im Museum Thalwil

“No one can return to the past, but they can return to places”: this is how the well-known German cultural scientist Aleida Assmann characterises Florian Bachmann’s long-term project. He has been visiting and photographing unusual places of memory in Switzerland for years. His black and white photographs are as incidental as they are precise: unobtrusive visualisations of a sometimes overgrown, sometimes wiped away or overbuilt trace of events from the past. Swiss historian Stefan Keller has compiled the stories behind the images, organised alphabetically according to the titles of the photos: from Amok syndrome to Wasenmeister (Knackerman). The series of works is an open collection.