Caro Niederer

Waiting for Returns

30 August - 11 October 2008

Zürich

Uncontrived, everyday images are wrought large and luxurious in Caro Niederer’s new works. Family scenes — an outing at a lake, a tennis lesson, the artist’s daughter bright-eyed and standing before a painting — have been captured as photographs, then hand knotted into three-metre-long silk carpets in China. These are cultural returns upon ordinary moments, untroubled images whose details have been painstakingly knotted into lustre. Niederer is interested in how value comes into being: in how images allow us to hold onto and celebrate isolated fragments of our lives, and the ways in which they are shaped by their context. ''We are happily woven into the fabric of life with stories that spin out and tie in memories.''

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