29. June 1979JH SCHUETZRECENT PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECTLIGATIONS-------------------30.06.1979UWE POTHMY PICTURES COULD BE YOUR PICTURESMEETING

J. H. Schuetz and Uwe Poth from Germany visit Galerie S:t Petri in Lund on June 29 and 30, 1979. Both work with photography and text; for J. H. Schuetz, the text often comes to the foreground, while Uwe Poth’s photographs form the framework for the narratives.

J. H. Schuetz is originally American but now lives in West Berlin. His photographic project at Galerie S:t Petri is about finding the “heavenly” color through the development of ten sheets of light-sensitive paper with text — a kind of book.
On these sheets he then writes down as much information as he finds essential in that very moment. It is the spontaneous feelings, the experiences in relation to the surroundings, and the book that appear to him as most important to convey.

Uwe Poth has visited Lund twice before. In image and text he recounts his first visit. Glimpses of apparently insignificant things in and just outside S:t Petri are shown. During his second visit he captured the gallery in color photographs. Fragments of ceiling, walls, and floors seemed to him significant to document at that time. Now he is here for the third time. On Saturday at 6 p.m. he will give a performance in which the audience can also take part. White sheets of paper hang on the walls. During the performance he photographs what is important to him at that moment with a Polaroid camera and then writes down associations related to the images. He then lets the audience do the same — becoming participants in the creation of image and text.

For Uwe Poth, as for J. H. Schuetz, everything is important.
Through their images and stories, they show that everyday events are more meaningful and exciting than we usually think.