14 museomag   03 ‘ 2021 
“Most of the time when we start a new project, we are completely opposed in our ideas of how to work it out”, so Leonora. 
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HUMANS, NATURE AND DIALOGUE 
THE ARTIST COUPLE BRUNO BALTZER & LEONORA BISAGNO ENGAGED 
ON THEIR CREATIVE MECHANISM 
The eighth edition of the European Month of 
Photography (EmoP) in Luxembourg questions 
the complex relationship between the human 
being and nature, and carries the title 
“Rethinking Nature/Rethinking Landscape”. 
During this month, the works of various artists 
are being exhibited in Luxembourg’s museums. 
The MNHA is displaying five different points of 
view of seven artists (including two couples), who 
all have a different artistic approach to nature. 
We spoke to one of the couples, Bruno Baltzer & 
Leonora Bisagno, who live in Luxembourg, and 
work together as artists. 
Pictures are often points of view, captured in one 
image. How can one create a picture as a couple? Is 
it possible to unite two points of view in one image? 
Who presses the shutter of the camera? 
Leonora (L): “We are not so much interested in who 
presses the shutter. Sometimes it’s Bruno who does 
that, sometimes it’s me...” 
Bruno (B): “Or sometimes it’s someone else. We work 
a lot with archives too. Our work is mainly a result of a 
democratic exercise, dialogue and exchange...” 
L: “And discussions! Our work is constructed, we try to 
arrive at a vision that we both want to show, and we 
work with a protocol.” 
B: “Our way of working is very simple…but very com- 
plicated.” 
Let’s take one of your works as an example. Si je me 
souviens plays with Quebec’s slogan Je me souviens. 
Could you explain the process of how it was created, 
and what the work is telling us? 
L: “During our three-month stay in Montreal in 2018, 
we found out about a dump in the mountains in Que- 
bec where the huge amount of snow that falls in the 
city during the winter season is transported each year. 
This dump is a hole of two kilometres wide, that was 
created by using its resources to build the city.” 
B: “The snow that is taken away from the roads is highly 
polluted and is therefore called snirt (a combination of 
snow and dirt). When the snow melts, the dirt stays.” 
L: “The dump is also one of the most interesting geo- 
logical places on earth, and could teach us a lot about