Industrienatur woz ere, 2024Ceramic, graffiti fragments in poster pulp
15 x 30 x 90cm
Install view, Muji Kudamm, Berlin A series of sculptures that take inspiration from a discarded tree planter and the artwork ‘Tree woz ere’ 2023, the street-sited object has become deconstructed into shorter segments. The seperate forms here are made of human-forged clay rather than machine-produced metal but contain both London sourced paper with pulped posters from the layered lamposts at Warschauer Straße and grafitti fragments from the crumbling walls at Mauerpark in Berlin. ‘Industrienature woz ere’ takes its title from the book ‘Curated Decay’ by Caitlin DeSilvey, with the mention of the german term ‘Industrienature’, with its closest english translation being ‘Industrial nature’. Presented alongside a sketchbook containing collaged pulp and a handbound book that holds photographic prints of the paper material sources, the pages of the city and unintentional collaboration brings together human strata collectively to the surface.
Comissioned by Haus des Papiers as part of Paper Future Lab 2024, the artworks are situated in the flagship Muji store in centeral Berlin. During the time I was making these sculptures I found an unlikely finding of the etymology of the word ‘Muji’ which translates to ‘no ground’. A humbling nod to the tree saplings that the original tree planter structure was designed to protect, the ground-extracted materials now sit here both with and without it.
A5 handbound book containing monochrome photographic prints.
Sketchbook brimming with paper pulped collage, drawings and reference images.
Industrienature woz ere, 2024