Jean-Luc Cramatte

Jean-Luc Cramatte – Inventory
Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur
3 March to 28 May 2012

Jean-Luc Cramatte has been preoccupied with the notion of the photographic inventory for almost 20 years. Cramatte was born in Porrentruy in 1959 and is an obsessive image maker and collector – with as much interest in his own photographs as in found images. His explorations of the visible world are always based on wilful concepts that draw our attention to the inconspicuous, to what is often overlooked. Cramatte also tends to work in series, investigating the “normality” of life today with a humorous and critical eye, in photographic surveys that provide an instructive ethnography of the everyday. The exhibition at the Fotostiftung Schweiz, curated by Sylvie Henguely, presents several of Cramatte’s photographic inventories together with a survey of the “Enquête fribourgeoise”, a project coinitiated by Cramatte, for which younger photographers are commissioned to make visual records of Canton Fribourg.