Digital search processes as a critical methodology of photocuratorial practice.
The project "Poetics of Search" understands search processes and database structures as areas of the photographic. The exhibition introduces search as a narrator and digital co-curator by activating the semantics of digital databases as a contemporary infrastructure of curatorial practice and making them visible in the exhibition display. At the center is the question of what possibilities arise for the orders of photographic visibility through the testing of new search methodologies.
The casestudy developes the conceptual framework of the exhibition project and connects it to Fotomuseum Winterthur’s process of collection revision.