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„The kind of silence people only dream of“
October 2005

>>> Documentary film (Quicktime 5.9 MB)

Weißfrauenstraße 12 (near Willy-Brandt-Platz)

Installation: Petra Eichler and Susanne Kessler
Light design: Herbert Cybulska, Gregor Roth
Sound design: Martin Bott

The installation works with the silent strength of the fragile.
A forest clearing exchanges its familiar materiality and exposes its fragile and poetic side. Out of layers of white paper silhouettes, a natural landscape evolves.
The visitors can move through the layers, but only slowly and carefully, otherwise the paper and the situation is torn apart.
A light and sound collage immerses the space in a dawn-like atmosphere.

At the invitation of Droog Design, Susanne Kessler and Petra Eichler designed an additional paper forest for the Milan International Furniture Fair in April 2006. The format was five layers, each 16m x 3.26m.

The Hangaram Design Museum of the Seoul Arts Centers bought this forest for its collection and presented it at Designmade 2006.