Judith Raum’s installation Rustling Papers is now on permanent display at the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin (02/06/2024)
Judith Raum’s new installation Rustling Papers is now on permanent display at the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin. The work was realized as part of the art-in-architecture competition to design the entrance area of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy, which was won by Raum last year.
Her two-part installation Rustling Papers is a visual reflection of the Academy’s archive and library, with larger-than-life books, papers and files filling the display cases as if emerging at an angle from the wall and floor. The cases themselves resemble giant book boxes, echoing the truncated cubes of Daniel Libeskind’s architecture. The sculpture is combined with an audio recording which translates the Academy’s activities into mini-performances. These include readings from documents, as well as statements by Academy staff, spoken by actors and capturing their work, experience and relationship to museum exhibits in a series of short fictional dialogues.
Photo: Yves Sucksdorff. Courtesy of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
https://www.jmberlin.de/en/rustling-papers