In an exciting encounter, photographer Georg Aerni and art historian Isabel Zürcher discussed Aerni's work ‘Kander’ (2022, from the series ‘Folds and Layers’).
The large-format work (198 × 150 cm) shows a mountain slope in the Bernese Oberland, where the Kander river originates. Discreetly, the deserted nature also tells us something about the profound traces that climate change is leaving behind in the seemingly immovable mountains.
‘I always return to the overlapping of artefact and nature,’ explained Aerni during the event. Aerni's meticulous preparation of each shot, characterised by his training as an architect, gives the work its characteristic precision. The resulting stillness in the picture invites reflection on the relationship between man and landscape.
