einBuch.haus

For over a decade, Laure Catugier has explored analogies between music and modern architecture through her project “Architecture Is Frozen Music”, collecting modernist fragments during residencies across the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Her first monograph, A Never-Ending Stone, references François Coignet, who called concrete “a never-ending stone” in the 1860s, recognizing its potential. As modernism is rooted in concrete’s widespread use, the catalog’s images trace 20th-century architectural evolution. Catugier’s recent work examines the social dimension of modernism, especially collective housing—its norms, forms, and political ambiguities. The book includes an essay by Anna-Lena Wenzel, an interview with curator Moritz Küng, and new image collages by the artist. By layering lines and shifting perspectives, Catugier disrupts Cartesian space and questions the role of architecture in a changing, climate-impacted world.

Bound together by a piece of branch, the pages of the book revisit the idea of the photo album, highlighting stick users in the village of Şona. The carbonized appearance of the stick is reminiscent of the blackened facades of farmhouses, also echoing the soundtrack associated with the book, which can evoke the crackle of fire.

The sound recording is the result of rubbing a mic contact that I deliberately left lying on the floor. The idea was to reproduce the gesture of the shepherd who crosses the village every day with a tree branch in his hand, its foliage tickling the asphalt.

The artist Scott Robertson has been progressively making more of the ideas and feelings he has. What once began as a list of ideas for actual works, this rolling list, ever evolving, has over the years included more and more hopes, realities, jokes (usually at the expense of himself and/or the work) and after-effects of doing what he does.

"100 Things This Show Could Have Been", Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea (2024), "100 Things This Book Could Have Been", London: Fifthsyllable, 2021 & 2023, "100 Things This Work Could Have Been", 2019, "52 Things This Work Could Have Been (a deck of cards)", 2015, "100 Things To Do In The Exhibition", 2025, these have all naturally carried on from one another, and from Robertson’s precarious place in the art world, hanging on in there, distracted by trying to make a living instead. Ideas and feelings are free to store, easy to carry around and don’t require specialist shipping companies. It is a financial decision as much as a creative one.

For einBuch.haus, Robertson was invited to create 40 cards for a revolving display to inaugurate the series Edition Unterwegs*. The number was decided by the holder of the cards, aligning with the conceptual approaches mentioned above. The cards question themself, their physical place, their format and their limitations in the same way.

*Edition Unterwegs (Edition on the Way)
A travelling postcard exhibition & limited edition series initiated by einBuch.haus

"Edition Unterwegs" is a mobile art exhibition and postcard edition that travels from place to place, adapting to its surroundings while offering a deeply personal experience through small-format works. Each edition invites an artist to create a collection of postcard-sized artworks, designed to be shared, mailed, or collected.

A postcard to activate

The line of text “Vervollständige die Linie mit dem Horizont(EN: Complete the line with the horizon)” crosses the white postcard and invites you to commune with the landscape.