Wiedemann/Mettler
narratief

Galerie Urs Meile is pleased to announce the exhibition narratief by the Zurich-based artist duo Wiedemann/Mettler. The exhibition brings together textile works and reconstructed photography, which together create a quiet, deliberately decelerated visual world. The velvet pieces and reconstructed photographs together unfold a quiet, deliberately decelerated visual world. The bleach-painted figures on fabric appear like traces of an interior narration – ephemeral, organic, almost dreamlike. The photographic reconstructions, by contrast, build spaces in which reality and imagination slide into one another, forming their own atmospheric narrative. The intentionally misspelled title narratief points to the unfinished, the open, the act of storytelling as a movement of search rather than conclusion. In this sense, the works echo the poetic image-thinking described by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) where forms and spaces become resonant chambers for imagination. Installed together, the pieces enter a dialogical state – telling of and with one another without ever settling into a fixed meaning.

Working together since 2002, the artist couple Wiedemann/Mettler references the world from a position with a dual focal point. That is to say Daniel Mettler’s (b. 1965, Switzerland) staged photographs provide Pascale Wiedemann (b. 1966, Switzerland) with an associative liaison that leads her to creating works of almost physical emotionality. Their installations and architectural art are guided by the particular division between emotion and rationality, spatial interest and an almost physical intimacy. The procedural aspect of Wiedemann/Mettler’s artistic practice is directed by their reacting to and interacting with the works of the other – a symbiotically charged process which in an uncommon way evokes closeness and poses questions that center around materials, structures, and the shells of intimacy. Across media and structures their individual works are always a reference to themselves and its pendant. With the confrontation of different media like photography, sculpture, painting, and installation they create a doubled point of view which is indicative for their practice that draws the viewer into their actions and way of thinking.

January 22 – March 21, 2026
Galerie Urs Meile Rämistrasse

Opening:
Thursday, January 22, 2026, 6.00 – 8.00pm

Opening hours:

Wednesday – Friday, 11 –18h
Saturday, 11 – 17h