Lena Amuat & Zoe Meyer in their studio, Zurich
Since 2008 Lena Amuat and Zoë Meyer have been photographing material models in various scientific and university collections all over Europe.
Lena Amuat and Zoë Meyer artistic focus lies in questioning the relationships between fact and fiction, model and reality, original and copy, knowledge and perception. Apart from investigating concepts of modeling in science, they also appropriate artefacts and models which do not have any bearing in the scientific world and whose meaning and impact is rooted in ritual, cultic, fetishistic or religious contexts.
In the style of encycopledic collections (“Wunderkammern”), they devise a subjective worldview in which elements from science, religion, nature, and art are recombined.
