BEDS | Bedtime Stories in Photography – The exhibition is on view from 4 March to 23 April 2022 at Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie and was curated by Alessa Widmer. Works by Balthasar Burkhard, Imogen Cunningham, Jill Freedman, André Gelpke, René Groebli, Nan Goldin, Catherine Leutenegger, Kostas Maros, Tatjana Rüegsegger, Annelies Štrba, Jerry Uelsmann and Christian Vogt are exhibited.

A place of retreat and sleep, a place of love, intimacy and lust, a land of dreams, a scene of birth, but also of illness and death - the bed has a multifaceted role in our lives and is thus one of the most frequently portrayed objects in art. It is an intimate place; a place where we feel at ease; a place where many things are experienced. The exhibition at explores this place as a central motif in photography. However, the exhibition goes beyond the mere pictorial presentation of the bed and addresses the stories behind the individual works and photographed beds. The works represented in the exhibition range from photographs that observe the object of the bed in a distant manner through their documentary character to works that reveal an almost uncomfortable closeness to the beds of the protagonists. Equally diverse are the associated bed stories that reflect the background of the individual photographs.

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