Les Rencontres d'Arles Rencontres d'Arles: expositions, stages photo / exhibitions, photo workshops.

The main motifs of this photographic narrative derive from places of which appearance suggests such specific situations as violence, isolation, fear, loss, beauty and harmony. The images reveal the destruction/construction inherent in the urban process, while also intimating a silence, a halt. The moment of tenseness before or after something happens. The silence after the last metro has gone. A temporary, solitary confusion.

In High Altitudes, the theme is the mountain as a symbol of strength, of resistance; the mountain as an invulnerable, seemingly changeless state of being.

Human activity and its traces are internalised. Structures that are incorporated, that divide, separate and orchestrate. Struggle, rending, hardness. Concrete v. stone. A matter of ranking, of dissension; questions of proportion and dimension of forces.

A transcription of the feeling of violence mingled with a strange harmony.

Anna Katharina Scheidegger

Exhibition created with the support of Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.

Anna Katharina Scheidegger

Born in 1976 in Sumiswald, Switzerland

After graduating in 1997 from the Staatliches Seminar Lerbermatt, a teacher training establishment in Bern, she entered the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris in 1999.

In 2001, she began studying video under Henri Foucault and, in 2002, she won an exchange scholarship to the UdK in Berlin. She graduated from ENSAD in 2003.

In 2004–05 she was one of the student-artists at Le Fresnoy, in France, where she began using the pinhole technique to explore the relationship between photography and time, using it to produce moving images. This same interest also found expression in interactive installations and her film Fragment of Destruction, made with a rostrum camera.

She has taken part in many exhibitions, including Un inventaire contemporain II/III at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Journées de la Photo at Bienne in Switzerland and the European Media Art Festival at Osnabrück in Germany.

EXHIBITIONS