The Swiss collaborators Fischli & Weiss have said of this early series of color and black-and-white photographs, "Balance is most beautiful just shortly before it collapses." Indeed their tense arrangements of household miscellany often look on the verge of falling, or are caught in the process. The only texts included with them are associative titles, including Natural Grace, (a spatula on a plate on a wine bottle on an apple on a cup), The Fart (chairs on Coke bottles and aerosol cans), and Invisible Power, (showing one end of a paper construction held aloft by the breeze from a small fan). Many of the constructions appear under several titles, in several styles: Completion, when shot in grainy, starkly lit black-and-white, becomes Honor, Courage, Confidence, and in close-up, Can I , May I, Do Anything? On the page, these often elaborate and expansive objects acquire an incidental quality that makes them both more real and more transient. Ultimately, the only evidence of their existence is these images. While a small selection of these works appeared in the artist's book Quiet Afternoon, most have never before been published in any form.
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Like all of Fischli and Weiss' books, this book-long sequence of photographs is cerebral and fun. Each time I pull it off the shelf I have a new experience. The book interrogates photography but not in an antagonistic or didactic way. Each still life is accompanied by a title that functions as a caption. Sometimes the same arrangement of objects is photographed multiple times, each time receiving a different title. Each still life gives its own feeling, which the titles enhance, supplement, or confuse. It is a compare/contrast exercise but also a study of the feelings we can project ideas onto objects. The balance of the objects themselves stands as a metaphor for the balance between the photograph and the viewer. It also stands for the balance of the work overall, the act of creating an aesthetic balance. The result of these multiple balancing acts creates a warm exchange between the viewer and the artists.
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