In this project Basse harnesses the potential of cellulose and lignin, the most abundant natural polymers on Earth, whose connection was broken by the advent of industrial production. 

When Trees are cut down for paper production they are first turned into wood chips, and then into cellulose fiber by ways of extracting a brownish substance called lignin. 

While the former has been overused by the paper and textile industry, the latter remains largely untested. As an underused by-product, it is often burned in thermal treatment facilities. 
In this series cellulose and lignin are rematerialised to create a new kind of wood, embodying traces of the tree they come from.

 

Bio

The work of Basse Stittgen (1990) is positioned at the intersection of design, art and material research. It stems from a fascination for matter, how it can be created, cared for, and questioned to unfold hidden narratives.

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Basse’s work looks for ways how objects can mediate contemporary complexities by way of making invisible processes tangible. It puts things out of place and reshapes them through tools and processes that are developed from looking at the world through a lense of materiality.

He graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017 and since then his work has been exhibited at the V&A Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the 13th Shanghai Biennale of Architecture & the Rijksmuseum Twenthe. It is part of the collection such as the MAK Vienna, the NGV Melbourne and the Wellcome Collection.