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Tirage (Alte Gerberei Zofingen) I-III
https://www.annasabinazuerrer.ch
Tirage (Alte Gerberei Zofingen) I-III
(2015)
https://www.annasabinazuerrer.ch
Two photographs of the old Friderich tannery in Zofingen form the starting point for the work Tirage I-III in the Kunsthaus. They show an exterior view of the house from whose balcony skins and pieces of leather hang down. Fascinated by the old tanning technique, which is now almost extinct in Switzerland, Anna-Sabina Zürrer visited the Friderich tannery, which still exists today. A single man processes the hides from delivery to collection - if he is absent, the tannery remains closed. Anna-Sabina Zürrer translates this source material: in a similar way to the animal skin, she hangs the lambda print of the photograph on a wire stretched in the room and processes the print with chemicals as part of a performance. Similar to fleshing and refining fur, she transforms the source material into a new state. On three dates set during the exhibition (Forum, Matinée and Finissage), we can watch Anna-Sabina Zürrer at work and participate in the process of change. Colors run down from the large-format, black-and-white photograph like rivulets of blood and collect in the cloth spread out on the floor. Comparable to the acrid smells in a tannery, unpleasant odors also spread through the ballroom. By the end of the exhibition, these will have evaporated, leaving behind the washed-out, shiny sheet. As with tanning, Anna-Sabina Zürrer's works are irreversible conservation processes. She considers the end product to be the purest image carrier.
automatically translated from german
Schwarz-Weiss in Farbe
place: Kunsthaus Zofingen, Zofingen
KuratorIn: Waldner, Claudia
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action
Medium
Fotos / Photos
Dauer: 3 x ca. 30min