“We will build passionate houses. Everyone will live in their own cathedral. There will be rooms that awaken livelier dreams than any drug. Houses will arise in which it will be impossible not to fall in love,” wrote the French artist Ivan Chtcheglov in 1953.
This urbanistic vision of the future forms the backdrop to Rosa Jaisli’s work. She designs “diaphanous spaces”, floating, translucent architectural models made of paper. For this, she suspends several layers of paper one behind another from the ceiling. Into these sheets she cuts and tears openings that cite an architectural language of forms — doors, windows, or arches. The paper sculpture is permeable and opens the view to what lies behind it. The materiality of paper gives it lightness; its forms are clear and reduced. When the sun shines onto this paper architecture, it begins to glow. The city of the future is a city of light.
on the occasion of the BBK Bremen exhibition
2016 at Syker Vorwerk