Models serve the purpose of rendering visible established facts and knowledge for the purpose of transmission. This acquisition of ‘reality‘ by means of conserving, measuring, copying, and reproducing as well as questioning the relationship between fact and fiction, model and reality, original and copy, knowledge and perception form the basis of our artistic focus.
Apart from investigating concepts of modeling in science, we are also appropriating artefacts and models which do not have any bearing in the scientific world and whose meaning and impact is rooted in ritual, cultic, fetishistic or religious contexts.
In the style of encycopledical collections („Wunderkammern“) we devise a subjective world-view in which elements from science, religion, nature, and art are re-combined. We focus on diverging strategies of collecting and varying models of representation and attempt to reformulate scientific conceptions from an artistic point of view. We regard our work in this context as a highly subjective, ever-expanding image archive which is continually modified, employing diverse forms of intervention, which is continuously reconfigured by varying spatial arrangements and site-specific presentations.
All images are photographed using 35mm negative film and are not digitally enhanced.
Lena Amuat, born 1977 in Zurich (Switzerland) and Zoë Meyer, born 1975 in Berne (Switzerland) are based in Berlin (Germany) and Zurich. They studied Photography at the University of Arts in Zurich (1998 – 2003) and have been collaborating since 2008. In 2013 they complete their MA together in Fine Arts at ZHdK.
FESTIVAL
Hyères, International Festival of Fashion and Photography
April 26 – 29, 2013
Villa Noailles
83400 Hyères
France
