Nicolé Mayer, conservator, 2021, photography, 39 x 51cm (framed)

Janine Maria Schneider´s artworks restage memory. They liquify what we are prone to think is necessary memory and rearrange it again. The culturalstudies´ paradigm considers memory to be a performative process which bears memory to be an instrument of power and evokes questions. Who and what is remembered by whom, how and what for?- and especially – who and what- which groups of persons, which values – are forgotten?
To lift the lid on power structures and iniquities presents proposals to reorientation and to shoulder responibility! What kind of society do we want to live in – now and in near future? The stock of memory has to be revised and updated socio-critically. What our society needs is to show appreciation and respect to women and marginalised persons and to provide them with a space and place within cultural memory.
Janine Maria Schneider pioneers this approach. Let us be touched by her artwork. It emancipates us for a more loving, more respectful and less unfair future. Let us begin to re-imagine the world through her artworks.

Doris Ingrisch

Judith Vetter, medical technical assistant, 2021, photography, 39 x 51cm (framed)

Martina Papcúnová, carer, 2021, photography, 39 x 51cm (framed)

Menekşe Ismailoglu, busdriver, 2021, photography, 39 x 51cm (framed)

Anita Nagel and Monika Schneider, professional fisherwomen, 2021, photography, 39 x 51cm (framed) 

Stefanie Rüscher, kindergarten pedagogue, 2021, photography, 39 x 51cm (framed)

Sculpture: Robert Indermaur