11/06/2022 – 16/10/2022
Chosen Family – Less Alone Together, Fotomuseum Winterthur
curator: Nadine Wietlisbach
assistant curator: Katrin Bauer
The exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together drew on international positions and works from the collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur to shed light on photography’s treatment of the (elective) family and its representation of it as a social and cultural construct. In addition to the works of professional photographers and artists, the museum also presents personal photo albums, showing the family stories of people from Winterthur and from all over Switzerland.
With works by Aarati Akkapeddi, Richard Billingham, Larry Clark, Charlie Engman, Seiichi Furuya, Nan Goldin, Pixy Liao, Diana Markosian, Anne Morgenstern, Mark Morrisroe, Dayanita Singh, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Annelies Štrba, Leonard Suryajaya and Alba Zari.
Christoph Merian Verlag published the book ChosenFamily – Less alone together as an adjunct to the exhibition.
