Wait and See
F&D Cartier

Behind the title “Wait and See” lies an earlier project entitled “A-venir. Le temps d’être suisse” (1998).This earlier work considered the Swiss Confederation in relation to the passing of time in an evolutional photographic sequence, allowing this artist couple to contest the widespread association ofphotography with still-life painting. The updated performance currently at the Neuhaus Museum (Biel/Bienne) places black andwhite photosensitive paper and light – two fundamentals of the discipline – at the centre of its process. In this return to basics, a gesture which exemplifies the minimalist tendencies of thesephotographers, the elaborate hanging seeks to revive early photographic paper of various qualities by exposing it to the light present in the exhibition rooms.