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Paare / Couples
Fotostiftung Schweiz
Date
01 June 2024–26 January 2025
Venue
Fotostiftung Schweiz
Iwan Schumacher, Ohne Titel, Zürich, 1972 © Iwan Schumacher
Couples are omnipresent in photography – in historical photo albums just as much as on Instagram. More fascinating than idealised self-portraits though, are shots in which couples do not pose, but seem to be genuinely themselves. The exhibition shows an interplay of closeness and distance, togetherness and loneliness.
In 2015, filmmaker Iwan Schumacher began collecting photographs of couples who are not looking into the camera. Peter Pfrunder, director of Fotostiftung Schweiz, had long been planning an exhibition of couple pictures from the institution’s archives and collections. Together, they developed the project Paare /Couples. It brings together a very wide variety of photographs, in which something happens between two people. Each individual image is an excerpt from a story that always remains enigmatic and leads to speculation or projection. This exhibition is a playful associative presentation, in which the single moments combine to form a new narrative.
Price
CHF 14/12, Free admission on Wednesdays 17.00–20.00
Emil Schulthess, Times Square, New
York, 1953 © Emil Schulthess /
Fotostiftung Schweiz
Laurence Rasti, Ohne Titel, aus der
Serie «There Are No Homosexuals in
Iran», Türkei, 2014 © Laurence Rasti