Sonja Feldmeier – based on a true story
based on a true storypresents a complex of works by Sonja Feldmeier that is widely stratified in terms of content and media. A spectacular tree felling in northern India challenged the artist to both documentation and inventive cognition.
The video work The Peepul Treeexplores the sacrilege of a sacred natural monument; stills from the video accompany the artist's logbook created on site.
A large-scale, opulent series of images explores the ‹introspective views› of the protagonists. The Peepul's idiosyncratic pictorial inventions are based on the artist's synesthetic perception, which also finds an acoustic echo: By means of QR codes, sound compositions developed especially for The Peepul Treecan be retrieved.
Sonja Feldmeier: based on a true story. Edited by Sibylle Ryser.
With texts by Samuel Herzog, Daniel Morgenthaler, Senjuti Mukherjee and Sibylle Ryser.
26.5 x 32 cm, 92 p., ca 70 illus, 4colors plus special color, Swiss softcover in 6-page jacket.
Verlag für Moderne Kunst Wien, 2019
ISBN: 978-3-903269-93-4