Paper Archaeology
Objects and works on the base of herbarium paper sheets from archives of the Natural History Museum Vienna, 2023
“For her series begun in 2022, Michaela Putz explored the idea of archiving, image and reproduction. Starting from a „red list of ferns and flowering plants, which includes „vulnerable“ and „lost“ plants, she scoured the Internet for digital images of these endangered oreven extinct plant species and created a digital image archive, onthe one hand, and on the other, she inspected the herbarium of the botanical department in the Natural History Museum Vienna onsite and sifted through stacks of herbarium specimens.” - Ruth Horak, translated by Paula Marschalek
︎︎︎Text by Birgit Laback
