a place where every story is being listened to

a place where every story is being listened to. Ines Seidel

A place where every story is being listened to. A place where every sentence, every chapter and every break in your story and mine is received with attention.

a place where every story is being listened to. detail. Ines Seidel.

Installation with shapes made from book pages and ear shapes made from concrete and polymer clay. Work in progress.

a place where every story is being listened to. Ines Seidel

 a place where every story is being listened to. Ines Seidel.

The Talk

Maske mit Sprechblase. Ines Seidel
“The Talk” was an installation that was on show at the a href=”http://fridaygallery.com/”>Friday Gallery, Munich during Munich Jewellery Week from 24 Feb to 1 March. In a dialogue with the South African artist Allun Turner I have been creating jewellery objects, textures and masks from newspaper. Over the course of several weeks I got the chance to dive deeper into my favorite subject – words and gestures. Here are a few impressions:

The Talk. installation view. Ines Seidel.

The Talk. installation view. Ines Seidel.


 texture from burst speech bubbles. Ines Seidel

texture from burst speech bubbles. Ines Seidel

Allun Turner. trophy head.

Allun Turner. trophy head.

Allun Turner @ The Talk

Allun Turner @ The Talk

pendant made from newspaper. Ines Seidel.

pendant made from newspaper. Ines Seidel.

show your wound. ring made with paper.  Ines Seidel.

show your wound. ring made with paper. Ines Seidel.

"The Talk". Ausschnitt. Ines Seidel

“The Talk”. Ausschnitt. Ines Seidel

verses, unsung

verses, unsung. concrete, wax, dried blossoms, teabags and other material. Ines Seidel

unsung verses

of the promised touch

a scent not yet recognized and

the words I am still searching for.

verses, unsung. Ines Seidel
verses, unsung. ca. 28 x 13 x 3 cm in a row.
concrete with paint and a transferred photograph of my hand
found dry blossoms in candle wax,
teabags with handwriting, wax and yarn.
Additional pictures at flickr here and here.
Verse, ungesungen. (Ausschnitt) Ines Seidel

walls from words

walls from words and stories. Ines Seidel wire houses, with or without a concrete base. Wrapped in spontaneous text written on tea bags, sealed with wax.

(house 1, in the picture above the second house from right, translated from German).

walls from words and windows from soft words and doors from stories and walls from words and windows from soft words and roofs from half sentences and stairs from laughter only the light is simply here. And you are here. I am here.

In between walls from words, windows from soft words, doors from stories and unspoken cellar rooms and you are here with me. We talk walls to each other.

In between light falls through walls from words and roofs from half sentences and stairs from laughter, windows from soft, thin words, doors from stories. You hear here. Here.

And roofs from half sentences and walls from words and everything can fall apart if we don’t catch a new word, but light is simply here. And you are here and I am here and doors from stories, if you believe them. Stairs from laughter, cellar rooms from unspoken words. If you believe them. If you believe words, you are here with me.

walls from words and stories.. Ines Seidel




(house 4, the smallest one, with English words)

Living inside stories, written on the walls oft he world that has your name on it. Telling you where your limits are. Spelling your name.

Living inside stories. Telling you: You are here. The limits of your name echo from the walls. The story about limits.

Living inside stories written on the walls of your name. If you believe in limits. If you believe in stories, how much room does your name need. If you believe.

Living inside stories, as if they were your skin.


walls from words and stories.. Ines Seidel

sound system

sound system installation. Ines SeidelI have filled empty cereal boxes and other cardboard containers with silence. They are brimming with the same perfect stillness. But the packaging differs: There are pictures from the local train station, from the sky above the churches, or from corridors of administration buildings. They put different labels onto the silence.
When you listen to this sound system you can hear your own projected noise and assessments. The projections are wrapped around stillness. As it is in real life..Soundsystem Installation. Ines Seidel
My sound system will be part of the upcoming exhibition in the town hall of Neufahrn. Outside of the garage atmosphere it will sound very different, I guess.