Meet Thy Spirits

<p>The interactive eBook <em>Meet Thy Spirits</em> is based on hundreds of sketchbooks that Birgit Kempker has filled with her drawings for years. In the sketched sheets, language and image find a common wavelength, posing big, existential questions with full force and yet also with delicate vulnerability. Humor and despair reveal themselves in the works entwined in a paradoxical and magical symbiosis, whose suggestive effect is hard to resist.</p> <p>Birgit Kempker developed the digital book <em>Meet Thy Spirits</em> from her drawings, in collaboration with media artist Esther Hunziker. In the interactive eBook, the drawings layer over one another, creating new constellations: elements start to move, figures begin to speak, texts dissolve. All the while, Birgit Kempker’s voice appears and reappears, commenting or drawing new lines from off-screen. As if watching the formation of the artist’s own thoughts, the book takes an adventurous rollercoaster ride into the imponderables of human existence at a time of heightened uncertainty.</p>