Forget Me Not Vergissmeinnicht

404 pages, English

Die Publikation zur Kunstinstallation am St.Galler Tröckneturm wurde beim renommierten Wettbewerb «Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt» 2025 mit der höchsten Ehrung, der «Goldenen Letter», ausgezeichnet!

The picturesque landscape of East Switzerland is home to a diminishing number of Hänggiturme and Tröckneturme: peculiar yet monumental wooden towers once used for drying dyed textiles. These structures are remnants from the 19th century, when the region was a booming global centre of textile production. Once herself a textile designer in St. Gallen, Stéphanie Baechler decided to uncover the histories of these towers and the work they housed, as well as to re-invigorate their present through an artistic intervention. 'Forget-Me-Not' catalogues a series of photographs of the remaining towers taken by Ladina Bischof in the form of an atlas, photographs that become the surface onto which Baechler’s research unfolds visually.