Marianne Büttiker
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
Marianne Büttiker
en archē About the poetry of signs, 2023
Manuscript pages painted, woven with cotton thread 55 x 210 cm, 90 x 125 cm
en archē, the ark, this fabric, made of hand-written notebook pages from my manuscripts cut into strips, becomes a ship-shaped wall sign by folding the fabric web, an ark of the text, which takes its content back to the beginning, to the unreadable and to the mystery of the language carries. They are an ode to the moment, to ornament, to art, to slowness, to the senses and sensuality, to silence and space, to dialogue with tradition and vision and to the value of every everyday activity and its products . For these experiments and implementations, I chose strips of painted manuscript pages of the texts, reflections and notes of the last few years, which I gave a new meaning to using the textile techniques of weaving, sewing and embroidery, through the previously designed and invented symbols and words and thus create a new structure in terms of content and form, which, as a workpiece, connects this world and the other world, which in turn makes an encounter, reflection and a counterpart possible as a sign in space. This creates large-format wall, room and floor objects, as symbols and syllables, and small-format object-like page fragments in which the word and the image come together, forming an ark of the text that takes its content back to the beginning, to the unreadable and to the mystery of language carries art.
Marianne Büttiker
About the poetry of dialogue, the poetry of memory, 2024
hand embroidery on cotton, Tapestry, hand weaving with cotton yarns from known and unknown estates 146 x 256 cm, 30 x 30, 240 X 140 cm
The inspiration for this fabric is my very first visual memory: the colored kilim carpet in the children's room. On it I began to travel the world and colors and research them; the wild suns rising from many color fields and shimmering ribbons of fantasy worlds, drawn in pencil on paper napkin envelopes next to the plates, in a sun-drenched dining room on Lake Lucerne. This cartography, a flying carpet, follows the trail of images from childhood that emerge from memory, which continues to be drawn up to the present day and weaves itself into and influences artistic works and projects as an ephemeral world of appearance. In my opinion, especially in today's world, it is valuable to meet and have direct conversations with each other, to tell each other, in order to create spaces, insights and new images and new stories through telling each other. Sitting together at a table and talking and listening to one another means shaping life and time and space together. This complexity requires a protocol, a recording, a tracing and translation, a seismographic transcription, I thought, and set to work mapping the conversations among 12 people during a meeting around a table. Stitch by stitch I follow the words and sentences, thoughts and themes, connections and progressions.
