Sonja Feldmeier Livres

Based on a true story? presents a new work complex by Sonja Feldmeier, one that is highly ramified both in terms of its content and of the media it uses. A spectacular tree felling in northern India challenged the artist to document the event and to think ahead in an inventive manner. Her video work ?The Peepul Tree? explores the sacrilege against a sacred natural monument; stills from the video accompany the artist?s on-site log-book. A series of large-format, opulent pictures explores the protagonists? ?inside views.? The idiosyncratic pictorial constructions of ?The Peepul Tree? are based on the artist?s synesthetic perception, which also has acoustic reverberations?QR codes allow users to call up sound compositions specially developed for ?The Peepul Tree.? Moreover, the book assembles essays by authors active in interdisciplinary fields who shed light on Feldmeier?s work from different perspectives.

Sonja Feldmeier (geb. 1965) sammelt visuelle Informationen aus der Alltagskultur und verschiebt deren Inhalte in an-dere Bildsysteme. Camouflage-Muster werden zu Landkarten, Fotos aus dem Irak-Krieg zu leeren Landschaftskulissen. In fünf individuell gestalteten Buchteilen stellt ‹Duality, 2 of 2› fünf Werkgruppen vor. Texte von Barbara Reger, Giovanni Karmine, Pierre-André Lienhard und ein Interview mit der Künstlerin.