Artist's book: Cornelia Blatter returns to the Alps of her childhood to release letters in balloons addressed to lost loved ones.
Memories of the Furka Pass and its winding mountain road date back to Cornelia Blatter's childhood summers, when her family would drive over the pass on their way to Alpine vacations. The summit always held a sense of solitude. In 1997, she returned for a ten-day stay at Furkablick as part of
Furk'Art, where she wrote letters to lost loved ones—some deceased, others who had drifted away—and released them on balloons. Their destination remains unknown. Only the photos endure.
Cornelia Blatter is an artist, designer, publisher, and educator, co-founder of
CoMa.
Her art has been shown at venues such as the Holly Solomon Gallery, Swiss Institute in New York, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Shedhalle in Zürich and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. As the "Co" in CoMa, she collaborates with artists, museums and galleries on the design and publication of books, exhibitions and websites.
