Looping Memories

12.05.2010 - 05.06.2010

The choice for this exhibition focuses exclusively on works that have to do with memory and the passage of time. Representations of dream and reality and the transitional states inbetween were the guiding influences behind the choice of content. Many of the works are serious; others are melancholic, ironic and sometimes even humorous. All works take the form of endless loops, their repetition of the same thing over and over again bringing us back to the title of the exhibition.

Many works are stand-alones, while others are gathered together in groups, the unusually dense form of their presentation being due not least to the prevailing shortage of space. Visitors can quite literally plunge into their midst, meander where they like, look at what they like or even look away if they like.

The exhibited works together weave a fabric of memories and invite the more curious among us to explore a good ten years of Swiss video history and allow our own memories to merge with the images offered. Questions inevitably crop up and the search for answers begins – and then there they are, yet again, those looping memories.

Works from the videoartists: Peter Aerschmann, Erik Dettwiler, Diana Dodson, Florian Dombois, Heinrich Gartentor, Franticek Klossner, Reto Leibundgut, Andrea Loux, Chantal Michel, Laurent Schmid, Dominik Stauch.

Curator: Bernhard Bischoff