Wild Sheep Chase
two thermo-hygrometers from the same brand with somehow (always) different display data,
4.4 × 8.8 × 1.3 cm, 2025

Wild Sheep Chase is my ongoing library project since 2024: I go to the libraries, select books from there, copy one page from each book, and fold the pages into sheep origami. Each sheep is stamped with numbers, as well as a corresponding note I also hid a blank sheep inside every book I have ever scanned - it was stamped with an email address for the project, so other visitors of the library, if found the sheep, could write to me and return the sheep if they wish to. 
Books in the library are just like sheep: they are all tagged, they spread out and gather back at some point. Parchment, one of the oldest paper (the carrier of knowledge) is made from sheep/ goatskin. Dolly is the first cloned (copied) sheep...The action of turning the papers into sheep suggests also bringing sheepskin back to the sheep, returning from the readable to non-readable, blurring knowledge and non-knowledge, approaching a new way of seeing/reading/viewing.
The title of this project, Wild Sheep Chase, comes from Haruki Murakami’s novel of the same name. In many of his works, there is a fictional surreal character called the “Sheepman” reappearing: a man wearing sheep skin, sitting in a dimly lit room full of books forever, reading or writing on a desk. Always appearing in the protagonist’s hallucinations and dreams, Sheepman serves as a symbol of mystery, transformation and unknown in Murakami’s universe. The project was initially inspired by this character and also a tribute to it.
Wild Sheep Chase has a fluid body: it contains an ever expanding sheep flock, a block of note (also in book format), and an ongoing mailing/exchanging system. ​​​​​​​
Installation view at Andreas Züst Library, 04/2024
Installation view at Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, 01/2025