PaperSeries is Richard Jochum's second exhibition at Vienna based Gallery Lindner. During the 90ies he had created a number of artist's books, i.e. conceptual shortest-books and minimalist pieces, which served as foundation for his first exhibitions. Since then he has expanded his practice and worked in a broad variety of media, performance, sculpture, installation, and video, among others.

PaperSeries connects to the early works of the artist and rekindles his dialog with paper as a material that has been formative for his practice from the beginning. However, if Jochum's book-objects or artist's books had been language based, the PaperSeries drops that connection alltogether and introduces the material in its visual, tactile and sculptural quality.

The series is based on a visual investigation: What happens when we unfold paper that we just crumpled? It will inherit visual memories and stretch-marks of what just happened to it, yet never return to its original two-dimensional state unless re-presented as a photograph. “Paper Works” are photographic prints that capture the story of these marks. Playfully going back and forth between the two- and three- dimensional space the series enacts what could be the difference between photography and sculpture, between history and memory.