Shi Guorui (Beijing) and Andrea Good (Zürich)
In this exhibition the photographer Shi Guorui (Bejing) and Andrea Good (Zürich) travelled through Switzerland and captured their impressions on photographic paper. Both photographers independently found similar methods; what seems common turns out to be a very unusual working method in terms of technique and realisation. With the Camera Obscura technique both photographers seek unusual ambiences of light. The physical principle is easy: incident light is bundled through a hole into a completely darkened room and projected on the other side of the wall. There you see a mirror-inverted image of the photographed object turned upside down - the smaller the hole, the sharper the image.
A pinhole camera forces the user to gradualness and patience, the extraordinarily long exposure time blends out all of the passing cars, passersby, or the movement of a gondola cableway. The panorama pictures present the surrounding environment through a veil of mist.
Surreal images of the environment are created, freed from any liveliness, reduced to their essence of being. Shi Guorui sees herein a purification of the soul. The exhibition ‹The same is not the same› confronts us with a new perspective on familiar places.
