The Forest

Keen on “giving voice to the past”, Thomas Geiger’s works consist of performances, performative action sculptures, and site-specific temporary interventions conceived in urban environments, private, public or institutional spaces. Mostly involving poor, even banal materials, which are inscribed in daily life, Geiger’s works engage with the history and common uses of the spaces he intervenes in, unfolding as means for collaboration, confrontation or conversation with the public. The artist, co founder of the Mark Pezinger Books that publishes artists’ books including his own, has also worked with books as material for his works.

For this series, Thomas Geiger has transformed various book covers into small-scale tree sculptures and a sculpture in the form of a house. The titles of the books that the artist has selected for this series include the words “tree”, “forest” or other words with associated meanings. Looking like bare trees, the sculptures form a fragile forest of books, a miniature fictive landscape. Placed together, the works highlight the relationship between the source material (wood from trees transformed into paper) and the end product (a tree sculpture made of paper).