At different times and independently of each other, Izet Sheshivari (Boabooks), Georg Rutishauser (edition fink) and Larissa Kaspar/Rosario Florio/Samuel Bänziger (Jungle Books) have realised books with the artist Miriam Sturzenegger. In all these projects, the physical and temporal experience of spaces is actualised through conceptually driven processes of translation. Between built structures, sculptural arrangements and the books’ own spatiality, scope for focussing, mirroring or distancing opens up.
The publishers/designers, who also know each other’s work well, and the artist talk for the first time in this constellation about questions that are formative for the collaboration and the making of the books beyond the individual projects.
Miriam Sturzenegger’s artistic work is mainly site-specific and sculptural. Her site-specific interventions deal with the order of built spaces and their power over bodies. She is interested in the materiality of the built environment from the perspective of physical presence and space-forming processes. Her sculptural thinking is characterised by procedural developments based on a combination of material conditions and conceptual motifs.
