Jonas Scheu

Video & installation

Matière Primaire

Video · HDV, 4 min 41 s · Switzerland, 2007

Cutting a tree is an exercise of the senses. The woodcutter orchestrates the growth of the forest and performs a sharp intervention in nature: a ritual, a dance between humans and trees. A meditation on time and the power of transformation.

Shown at
LOOP Video Festival, Barcelona, 2008; 12e Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, 2007