Vor Ort – Baum bandagiert

For several years, Manu Wurch has repeatedly worked here in the March, making small interventions in nature. This was done without any further notice; the artist did not want anyone to be aware of her interventions. She simply wanted to make her own perceptions visible to others. It was only in her later exhibition – through the documentary photographs and artifacts on display – that some visitors were reminded of these strange interventions in nature. The pile of wood, the wood arranged in a lying trunk, or the anointed, dead tree. The dead tree, which coincidentally fell down shortly before the planned exhibition, ultimately found itself sawn into pieces and included in the exhibition. Accompanied by a video work by the artist which records the application of the plaster bandage.

Photographs show another felled and chopped tree, which the artist reassembled and remodeled on the forest floor. The cut surfaces in the wood glow wonderfully brightly in the winter evening light, demonstrating how the artist worked with pre-existing perceptual events. She herself comments:

“Ultimately, everything is there and it just needs to be perceived; perhaps this is enough if the eyes are awake and the mind is still.”