22/04/13
f&d cartier: Wait and See
Oriel Canfas
1 – 31 May 2013
We are the camera.
The title of one of f&d cartier’s previous exhibitions (2004), but
equally an apt epithet for the Swiss artistic duo themselves. Having met at
college at 20 years old, the pair built up individual careers – Françoise as a
painter and sculptor, and Daniel as a black and white photographer – before
entering into a shared dialogue in 1995, and uniting their creative practices
with the collaboration, f&d cartier, in 1998.
As minimalist visual artists, they work with the two
basic prerequisites for photography – light and photosensitive paper – opting
mainly for camera-less techniques, often in combination with found objects.
Their professed aim is toquestion everyday life,
intimacy, the passing of time, and the position and role of the artist and the
image in today’s society.
To read the rest of this essay, please go to: http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2013/04/we-are-the-camera-fd-cartier/