What is it that old photographs do to us? Can ghosts be banished?

"Kaum einer wird sich noch erinnern" (Hardly Anyone Will Remember) draws on the popular volume "Uri damals, Photographien und Zeitdokumente 1855–1925" by Karl Iten. Nathalie Bissig selects images from the book and reinterprets them photographically new.

The work was published as a newspaper supplement in the Urner Wochenblatt, distributed in an edition of 13,000 copies to every household in Uri. It functions as an invitation to a dialogue between then and now, and a way of renegotiating the old book's role in shaping local identity.

Concept and Photos: Nathalie Bissig
Graphic Design: Sarah Infanger
Texts: Tobias Büchi, Marilin Brun
Print: Gisler Druck AG, Altdorf

Opening with Performance 2019 in Flüelen