Self-Timer Stories

The exhibition Self-Timer Stories explores the phenomenon of the ‘self-timer’ photograph on the basis of the Austrian Federal Photography Collection – on permanent loan at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg – as it relates to international positions.nnWorks by artists spanning four generations are on show in a dialogue about a practice popular both in everyday life and in artistic photography, which is now regularly revived using new technologies. Based on around 80 works of 34 artists from the Federal Photography Collection and artists from the MUSAC Collection, the exhibition interplays these works with those of “broader” photography by international and Spanish artists; thus narrating a history of photography by means of the self-timer or shutter release mechanism. Works from the Federal Collection, loans from private archives as well as new productions of a new generation of Austrian artists unfold in a multitude of artistic media: photographs, films, videos, slide projections, art books and Performances.