Marianne Büttiker
In the word. The picture. Appears // textures I don’t see it, the picture, without the word, 2025
handwoven made from painted manuscript pages, Tree and woollen yarns from known and unknown estates different sizes 24 x 28 to 170 x 300 cm
The result is small and large-format spatial objects in which I detach the interweaving of the two thread systems : warp and weft, from the traditional concept of the linear weaving surface growing from bottom to top and, like painting, dissolve them into a free composition that establishes the connections directly and simultaneously.
Marianne Büttiker
The sky is a straight line. On the poetry of memory, 2024
hand-woven with cotton yarns from known and unknown estates 140 x 240 cm
The inspiration for these fabrics is my very first pictorial memory: the colorful kilim carpet in my childhood room. On it, I began to travel the world and the fields of color illuminated by the wandering sunlight from which the fantasy worlds rise, to and to search for them, for the wild suns, the colorful countries and cities, the animals, the primeval forests and the other stars.
Marianne Büttiker
Memory and memory A cartographic chapter location, 2021
25 handwritten manuscript pages 2016 - 2020, 15 x 21 cm, sewn together, drawn over with colored felt-tip pen, embroidery on cotton total size: 160 x 72 cm
To do this, I edited the manuscript pages with drawings and stitched the text pages together in an order that did not follow their chronology. With this visual examination, I venture visually and spatially to a new cartographic chapter location and to a processual dialogue with language and image, content and form. The chapter strands, as embroidery, concentrate the timeless, original and playful nature of the text's theme and, as cartographies, locate the protagonists' paths through time
