Fotomuseum Winterthur | Events | Friday, 10.06.2022, 18:00–21:00
Opening Chosen Family – Less Alone Together
Leonard Suryajaya, Two Bodies, 2017, from the series False Idol, 2016–2020 © Leonard Suryajaya
From 18:00: Drinks and music by DJ Watson
19:30: Welcome by Martin Bölsterli, foundation's board of trustees, and introduction by Nadine Wietlisbach, director Fotomuseum Winterthur
19:45: Welcome by Fotostiftung Schweiz
The exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together draws on international contemporary positions and works from the collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur to shed light on photography’s treatment of the (chosen) family and its representation of it as a social and cultural construct. In addition to the works of professional photographers and artists, the museum also presents personal photo albums, showing the family stories of people from Winterthur and from all over Switzerland.
The exhibition’s focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that a chosen family is family all the same.
19:30: Welcome by Martin Bölsterli, foundation's board of trustees, and introduction by Nadine Wietlisbach, director Fotomuseum Winterthur
19:45: Welcome by Fotostiftung Schweiz
The exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together draws on international contemporary positions and works from the collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur to shed light on photography’s treatment of the (chosen) family and its representation of it as a social and cultural construct. In addition to the works of professional photographers and artists, the museum also presents personal photo albums, showing the family stories of people from Winterthur and from all over Switzerland.
The exhibition’s focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that a chosen family is family all the same.