In the work cycle „Resistant Tales“, Claude Bühler uses the media of photography and sound to explore how feminist and anti-hierarchical practices and methods can create new spaces outside social norms and constraints. The work repeatedly revolves around pausing in the here and now and the transformative power of healing.
The camera focuses on the intermediate tones of a connection to oneself and the immediate surroundings. Flora and fauna play a major role, but the artist‘s social environment is also important to her. Microphones capture memories of an expanded physical consciousness - sounds of burrowing earthworms, bathing birds or the murmur of a mountain stream can be heard.
Through this new cycle of works, Bühler questions profit-driven production logics in the art industry by actively decelerating the creative process and making it sustainable. To this end, she creates a collection of different exhibits that can, but does not have to, evolve with each exhibition and each sound performance. She therefore treats material and human resources with particular care. In „Resistant Tales: Edition I“, Bühler is interested in visualizing vulnerability and approaching an honest self. On the one hand through gentle nude photographs and nature portraits, but also through site-specific guided listening sessions for a small audience, in which Bühler works with field recordings and contact microphones.
In „Resistant Tales: Edition I“, Bühler is interested in visualizing vulnerability and approaching an honest self. On the one hand through gentle nude photographs and nature portraits, but also through site-specific guided listening sessions for a small audience, in which Bühler works with field recordings and contact microphones.
In "Resistant Tales: Edition II", the artist favours an increasingly playful and intuitive approach to the visual material produced in Thusis. Here she designs large, abstract-looking flags. These develop a meditative pull in an installative context and thus refer to Bühler's intensive preoccupation with a magical perspective on her environment.
