About
Salome Erni
(she/her), born in Switzerland, based in The Netherlands
As a research-based visual artist and writer, I explore narratives and collective narrations. Conversations, collaborations and research interwinte. Often, I take archives and found imagery as a starting point to my practice which takes shape in (video) essays, books and exhibitions.
I am interested in the circulation of images, their changing contexts and connotations. For me, photographs are visual manifestations of relationships; I treat them as snippets of perspectives to investigate how the individual relates to larger socio-political power relations and hegemonic narrations.
I understand my work as explicitly political. It is centered around conversations – conversations as a research-method, but also as encounters with the audience. Therefore, I often incorporate elements that foster participation. I embrace complexity and multiperspectivity as I feel these qualities are needed to navigate any interaction and the world at large.
exhibitions:
Graduation Show KABK, The Hague (2025) This Didn't Make It To Grad, Billytown, The Hague (2025) ––––– Lens on Law: Edges of Proximity, west Den Haag, The Hague (2025) ––––– A Year in Exile, Quartair, The Hague (2025) ––––– Paradise, The Hague (2025) ––––– How Language Flows, Zurich (2024) ––––– a butterfly was finding out yesterday how to make sense of misunderstandings, The Hague (2024) ––––– Open Student Call, Noorderlicht Photography, Groningen (2023) ––––– Fotowerkschau Luzern, Luzern (2023) ––––– Genius Loci, Hochschule Luzern, Emmenbrücke (2022) ––––– BLAMAGE|PASSAGE, Kali Galerie (2021)
(collaborative) publishing:
further 05 by Fotobus Society ––––– Outside the State: Our relationship to the land, by Essarter Éditions ––––– Greenland. Everything changes by Fotobus Society ––––– further 04 by Fotobus Society ––––– phroom magazine ––––– Young Photographer Monday by ronorp ––––– CIRCLE (associated with KABK, The Hague) ––––– EUSTORY ––––– Luzerner Zeitung/ CHMedia