a place where every story is being listened to

Posted on Tuesday August 2nd, 2016 by 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.

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

The Talk

Posted on Wednesday March 9th, 2016 by 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.

texture from burst speech bubbles. Ines Seidel

Allun Turner. trophy head.

Allun Turner @ The Talk

pendant made from newspaper. Ines Seidel.

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

“The Talk”. Ausschnitt. Ines Seidel

cloud installation @ Ispo

Posted on Friday January 29th, 2016 by Ines Seidel

clouds made from waste: Installation with ISPO Tandem Space

For seven exiting days, I have been part of the ISPO Tandem Space team that turns waste of the huge ISPO sports fair in Munich into a unique floating installation. Plastic foil of the ISPO exhibitors was used to stuff old textiles and form cloud shaped objects. During ISPO opening hours, the clouds got covered by the artwork of Adam Hartshorne, MAJILINA, Miguel Panadero Escala, Rafa Moreno-Tapia and me.

Work in Progress.

Tandem Space is the brainchild of Rafa Moreno-Tapia and Miguel Panadero. The Spanish artists have been realizing recycling art projects with ISPO for three years now, each time collaborating with different artists of different European countries. I met them at Stroke Ltd last October and was happy to be invited to join a process that is perfectly in line with my other work.

cloud installation with ISPO Tandem Space

I painted and scribbled on some of “my clouds”, on others I used cardboard or paper to create interesting textures. The surface of my favourite piece was made with plastic chords.

Teil der Wolken-Installation. Foto: Rafa Moreno-Tapia

part of the cloud installation. Foto: Rafa Moreno-Tapia

The cloud installation is planned to be exhibited once more at Stroke Artfair in May 2016. Finally, the individual pieces will be sold in an auction with the benefits going to Movember Foundation.

sound system

Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2014 by Ines Seidel

I 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..
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.

growing on

Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2014 by Ines Seidel

once the promises are covered with moss
soon grass grows all over this story,
later there will be dandelion, clover,
a flock of sheep and
who knows what else will grow
where words were planted *

The book out of which a story grows and greens will be part of a new installation that I am working on. The hand sewn net with paper circles will get longer still and it will climb up the wall.

*the poem in the German original is slightly different in meaning