Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth presents his second solo exhibition, created especially for the message salon.
Photographs, furniture and documents belonging to unknown individuals, left behind after the death of their owners when their homes are cleared out by second-hand shops and junk dealers, are the starting point for the artist’s exploration of traces of life that are in danger of disappearing. The fragmentary drawings engraved in waste wood aim to preserve these individual traces from oblivion, while texts from well-known pop songs and chansons superimposed on them connect the individual fates with a collective emotional memory.
The artist visited the homes of the former residents he traces in his drawings and created floor plans of the apartments. Together with the drawings, these provide clues for fantasising about those unknown lives and reflecting on one’s own transience, existence and what might remain of it.