Nele Jäger

Hey and Bye I went to a garden While holding my hands They stared at each other and waited Tender Cracks is about the decay of a garden, in which the touch of paper becomes an act of social and political environmentalization. Offering itself as a place for sentimentality and horror, names and namelessness, Tender Cracks is the impossibility of repetition. It is either bound to be disintegrated through the process of reading or will remain a beginning of a story that will never be told. A story of a garden whose flowers one can only dream of. Tender Cracks tears as we engage with it. The touch becomes a revelation in the moment of its narration: An infinite alterity welcoming its state of deterioration. Tender Cracks is about a tactile experience of impermanence and the irreversibility that is inherent in the process of reception. It overwrites the present with the presence of a next step. All that remains to be said here is that we have two hands. They mirror each other and wait. Hey and Bye

Jäger, Nele Tender Cracks, 2022 book object, 79 perforated pages

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