2020 |Sculpture 

In the church Nossa Dona, Feldmeier shows Coming Home, a work from the group of works called Home from Home, in which she explores ambivalent aspects of the theme of home. Coming Home, like its sister work Breaking Home, is an oversized flute, but, provided sufficient lung volume, this one is at least theoretically playable. The flute was made out of a tree trunk that was torn out along with its roots. The trunk ends in a mouthpiece. Between the mouthpiece and the roots the bark platelets are partially colored with pink forestry markings. Around the mouthpiece the color dominates, before it gradually decreases towards the roots. The luminous color emphasizes the tension between the two opposing forces in the work: The uprooting of the tree signals a raw energy such as can be found in nature. The processing and transformation of the natural material 'tree' into a flute on the other hand points to human craft and the fact that man appropriates nature in order to establish a home or a native land for himself. Because: Home is not only fixed, but can also be created by people settling in a place and filling it with experiences. Nevertheless, this creation of home can only succeed under favorable conditions - the fact that home also has a violent component becomes clear when people are denied the opportunity to acquire a new home or to reappropriate it. The roots floating in space condense this paradigmatically: the uprooting suggests homelessness, but nevertheless the tree at least theoretically retains the possibility to take roots somewhere again - even if it is in the air. (Sarah Wiesendanger)

Exhibitions
2020 Biennale Bregaglia, Nossa Dona
2020 36. Kantonale Jahresausstellung | Kunstmuseum Solothurn