Mutable/Multiple

Composed around a series of photographic works that challenge prevalent modes of documentary and storytelling, Mutable, Multiple explores how narrative, history, memory and myth can be recalibrated as a way of coming to terms with complex and changing realities.

A story of stories, the exhibition looks at the narrative potential of photography to engage with subjects, yet without adopting straightforward strategies. Leaning more towards fiction, interpretation, suggestion and trickery in order to insist on the ambiguity of photographic evidence, the six artists all examine the limits of representation and insert self-reflection actively within their work. Brought together in the context of Mutable, Multiple their projects occupy a hybrid documentary space between image and information, fiction and fact, where juxtapositions of interviews, literature, press material, news footage, archival interventions and staged photography are the new norm.

Mutable, Multiple brings to bear issues of entrapment and disappearance, fantasy and escape, exile and longing. The various ways in which each project deals with fractured, disharmonious lives that are constantly in a state of becoming are made apparent, allowing the viewer to meditate on the situations in which such individuals achieve visibility and, some cases, invisibility, in the world.

Exhibiting artists: Anne Golaz, Edgar Martins, Stefanie Moshammer, Max Pinckers, Virginie Rebetez and Amani Willett

Curated by Tim Clark and Louise Fedotov-Clements