being elegant, being you…

For some reason, the word “installation” feels like an understatement when it concerns the work of Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger. The above work, called Brainforest, is a massive web of “nerve connections” tangled with found objects like flowers, feathers, toys, even gold leaves. We are having a hard time wrapping our brains around it…appropriately enough. Click through for more images and close-ups.

January 8th, 2009 at 12:20 am