Photographer and artist Ruth Erdt is exhibiting new photographs at the message salon, taken over the past few weeks in rooms of the old building on Rigiplatz, which has housed the art space since 2001 and is soon to be demolished.
Plates are thrown against a wall, flying through the air, shattering into pieces. The artist captured this act of intentional circumstance in real time with an analogue camera.
Photography captures time, the moment, the seconds, the eye -blink. The beauty of the moment encapsulates melancholy and sadness about transience, but also the joy of having captured this very moment and preserved it frozen on photographic paper as an image.
As a photographer, Ruth Erdt has become known to a wider audience through her long-term study of her family and circle of friends. In the book “The Gang”, 2001, the artist has compiled excerpts from this work into a photographic picture book.
In the current exhibition at the message salon, Ruth Erdt is showing photographs from this cycle and a new ring binder as a possible reorganisation or continuation of the book “The Gang”.
Her daughter Eva, born in 1987, has experienced the camera and photography as part of her life from an early age. In her mother’s exhibition, she is showing a ring binder with her own photographs for the first time. Eva Vuillemin’s photo book is an independent work, but also a commentary and comparison to her mother’s photographic work.