CANCELLED: Opening Weekend With Guided Tours

In view of the measures taken by the authorities due to the current developments in connection with the corona virus, this event will not take place. No events will take place on site at the Centre for Photography until further notice.

Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz offer insights into the newly opened exhibitions Eva & Franco Mattes – Dear Imaginary Audience, and Pia Zanetti, Photographer.

Eva & Franco Mattes – Dear Imaginary Audience,
Funny cat pics with creepy captions shared on social media, digital images that circulate unseen through the internet’s infrastructure or anonymous workers hired online to both create and remove morally dubious web content: Eva & Franco Mattes (both b. 1976) have been investigating the internet’s effects on the ethics and politics of our daily lives since the 1990s, reflecting on how networked images increasingly interfere with and define our private and social behaviour. In the process, the artist duo dissects the opaque mechanisms of our networked society, its infrastructures and forms of online spectatorship – holding up a mirror to the viewer in a manner that is at the same time unsparing and darkly humorous. Fotomuseum Winterthur presents the artists’ first monographic exhibition in the museum context, showing new works that have been created for the purpose.

Pia Zanetti, Photographer
Pia Zanetti (b. 1943) made a name for herself with her insightful photo stories. Her great perseverance led her to excel in a field that had previously been dominated by men. Starting in the 1960s, she travelled extensively on behalf of publications such as Die Woche, Das Magazin, Du or NZZ, first in Europe and later all around the world. It was always the common people on the street, at work, at football stadiums, playing outside or lost in thought that caught her discerning eye. Unobtrusive, empathetic, critical and precise, she captured dramas big and small that unfold in day-to-day life.

Programme:

11:30 Guided tour Eva & Franco Mattes – Dear Imaginary Audience,
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12:30 Short guided tour Pia Zanetti, Photographer
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15:00 Short guided tour Pia Zanetti, Photographer
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The guided tours take place in German.

Subject to change due to the current situation.

Admission: admission to the exhibition (CHF 10.–/8.– (reduced))

For members: free admission

Image: © Thi My Lien Nguyen