Artist Talk: Conversation with Loredana Nemes

In conversation with Sabine Schnakenberg, curator of the exhibition, the photographer Loredana Nemes provides insights into their work.

Loredana Nemes’s series Under Ground, which is part of the exhibition, was made in the underground rail networks and metros of Moscow, New York, Paris, London and Bucharest. Using a twin-lens Rolleiflex medium-format camera she discretely – or critically considered, unsolicited – portrayed people who were sitting directly opposite her. Under Ground is a collection of clear, composed portraits imbued with a strange sense of timelessness.

The event takes place in English.

Admission: CHF 8 (plus admission to the exhibition)
For members: CHF 6 (including 20% discount and free admission to the exhibition)

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Fleeting encounters in the streets of international metropolises, calm suburban scenes, thriving thoroughfares, quirky everyday settings – street photography presents the diversity of our urban spaces and the people who live in them. The exhibition Street. Life. Photography and its five kaleidoscopically arranged sections with different thematic approaches offer a range of very different perspectives on city life and ways of photographing the street. In this exhibition, international contemporary photographers like Maciej Dakowicz, Loredana Nemes and Harri Pälviranta are contrasted with historical positions such as those of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, William Klein, Harry Callahan and Lisette Model.

Image: Loredana Nemes, S009, Paris, April 2005, from the series Under Ground, 2005–2006 © Loredana Nemes