The Collection spans unique works and strictly numbered editions, drawn from two distinct sources : a private archive of historical photographic glass plates, and contemporary works produced or presented in collaboration with living artists.
Alexander Bühler works with photographic material as a painter works with layers — accumulating, superposing, leaving visible the traces of the process.
“Memory of a festive event” begins with a bouquet of flowers given to the artist’s mother on her eightieth birthday. Bühler dried the flowers, arranged them, and transferred them to paper through repeated photocopying — layering pass over pass until the image accumulated its own history of losses and overwritings. The result is dense and grainy, petals dissolving into black, fragments of stem barely legible. Printed on handmade Bizan Washi with deckled edges, each work exists as both a physical object and a phygital edition registered on the Tezos blockchain. The medium is the memory: degraded, layered, and stubbornly present.
“Kegon Falls” was made from a collage of negatives taken during the artist’s second trip to Japan, reconstructing the waterfall as a sequence of overlapping rectangular sections — the seams between them visible, the construction deliberate. The fall reads as a vertical monument cutting through the landscape, appearing from nowhere and disappearing into nothing. Printed on Arches Velin BFK Rives with deckled edges, the work is presented in a handcrafted wooden frame with a coloured inner edge — a single quiet note of colour around an entirely monochrome image.
