Angelo Alfredo Luedin
Landis & Gyr Stiftung Residency
2021
Angelo Alfredo Luedin is a photographer and filmmaker. His practice explores time in an idiosyncratic way. In 1979 he took portraits of people in Sicily with his Polaroid camera, observed them as they looked at the resulting image, and then sought out his models a week later to see and photograph what place the Polaroid had taken up in their households in the meantime.
The connection to photography is also visible in his documentaries. The continuity of the action adapts to different activities; stretching, compressing, and manipulating experienced time. Angelo’s films include Scrap – Exploring the Edge (2019), Thomas Hirschhorn Gramsci Monument (2015), Trophies of Time (2005) and Builders of the Nation (1990).
Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Switzerland
The Landis & Gyr foundation awards studio scholarships to Swiss artists and cultural professionals in London, Budapest, Sofia and Zug. Its London-based residency partnership with Acme was established in 1987, and provides six month long work/live opportunities for ten Swiss artists per year. Artists are selected for the programme directly by Landis & Gyr Stiftung and must demonstrate a track record of achievement in their field. Over two hundred visual artists, curators, writers, musicians and composers have benefitted from the programme. Residencies are based in Stepney, E1 and are available to Swiss residents only
For more information visit lg-stiftung.ch.
