Biennale Images Vevey
2010
EPA
EPA
Ursula Mumenthaler has a habit of submitting architecture to plastic intervention and then photographing the result. For Festival Images, she conceived an on-site installation in the shape of a trompe-l’oeil on the upper floor of the disused commercial space that serves as a central venue for the Festival. Presented outdoors separated from its matrix, the image toys with visitors’ perception, shaking up their visual habits. Using anamorphosis, the artist diverts and questions the common notion that photography is a faithful transcription of reality.
