Performance: Cat’s Eye by Ariane Koch and Sarina Scheidegger

The performance Cat's Eye by artists Ariane Koch and Sarina Scheidegger, which is shown as part of the exhibition Street. Life. Photography focuses on the visibility of women. The (photographed) female body in public space often acts as an anonymous projection surface, which raises the question of who has the right to look at whom in what way and thus also to tell the story of these bodies. In the performance, a fictitious women's biography is traced, which in its fluidity stands for all non-narrated identities.

For the entire duration of the exhibition, visitors will receive a reflective sticker with a woman's name on it when they buy a ticket.

Ariane Koch and Sarina Scheidegger have been working together since 2012. The ephemeral, unique nature of their performative works and thus also the narrative of the spectators, who are also the primary witnesses of the performances, form an important component in the mediation of their works.

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: Ariane Koch and Sarina Scheidegger, Rosa & Louise – Ein feministisches Manifest in dialogischer Form, Photo: Kambiz Shafei