Press Release

At PHOTO LONDON 2023, the gallery is happy to present a solo booth for Swiss artist duo Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer and their series of still life studies titled »Artefakte und Modelle«.

The objects in these images have been sitting on shelves for decades, sometimes centuries. They are models, artifacts, natural specimen and teaching objects – a collection of objects that embody the human struggle for knowledge. Over twelve years in the making and numbering hundreds of images, the project inventories what the two women have unearthed traveling to search through archives and collections of European universities and natural history museums.
Dutch art historian Flor Linckens calls it »a series of enigmatic and decontextualized objects that are given a new life« and in her review of the work in the summer of 2022, she writes: »Elements from science, advertising, religion, art and nature are isolated and combined effortlessly in what could
be described as encyclopedic cabinets of curiosities. In the work of Amuat and Meyer, the past and the present enter into a new relationship.«

Lena Amuat (*1977) & Zoë Meyer (*1975) live and work in Zurich and Berlin. They both graduated from the University of the Arts in Zurich and collaborate since 2008.

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