Cécile Wick
Born in 1954.
Her work spans photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, video and performance. From the 1980s onwards, she explored the limits of photography as a means of representation. In the second half of that decade, she experimented with the camera obscura: exposure time and stillness shift the image beyond the mere capture of an instant.
She subsequently turned to digital cameras, which she uses to transform and recompose images.
Far from seeking a neutral reproduction of the visible, Wick treats the image as an open experience in which perception and memory intervene. Her photographic series and drawings play with the emergence, erasure and ambiguity of forms. The artist taught at the Zurich University of the Arts until 2016; in 2006, Kunstmuseum Basel devoted a solo exhibition to her.
Since 1998, she has conceived projects for art integrated into architecture with Peter Radelfinger. The diversity of media does not constitute a succession of self-contained periods; rather, it reveals a continuous inquiry into how the image is formed and transformed. Wick’s works are held in Swiss collections, including the Mobilière art collection, which documents her career and her photographic experiments.
