Melodramatic Reflection: Migrating Text
Sun Jaegal & Jasper Strassburger
May 28 – June 20, 2026
Opening⎢Thur. May 28, 18 - 21 hr
Wed. + Thurs. + Fri. 11 - 18 hr / Sat. 11 - 16 hr
einBuch.haus / Lindenstr. 91, 10969 Berlin
Our daily lives are filled with fleeting emotions — some that make us boil over or tear up without reason. Though all-consuming in the moment, these episodes fade almost absurdly fast. This impermanence is where the work begins: capturing, distorting, and reconstructing fragments of everyday text to make ephemeral moments more concrete and graspable.
Situated in the lineage of concrete poetry, cut-up methods, and conceptual art, the project treats text as spatial and physical material. When text loses its linearity, it gains physicality — becoming both image and object. Once migrated into the physical world, it invites a kind of engagement that extends beyond the page.
Melodramatic Reflection: Migrating Text presents text in the forms of mirror sculptures, keytags and a book — spanning its exploration from the linearity of text to its spatiality.
The series of mirror sculptures is engraved with personal writings, lining the walls like pages torn from a book. As viewers move through space, they encounter the text not only as visual object but as an entry into the author's private inner world — while the mirror simultaneously returns their own gaze. At the centre, keytags with short phrases are offered as small text-carriers — closer companions of everyday life. Combined and recombined, they shift in meaning with each arrangement, becoming quiet reminders that text is always with us — opening new possibilities for how text can be encountered and felt on a personal and tactile level.
Three book trolleys move freely through the gallery carrying books, symbolising the artists as tenants and outlanders with no fixed place. On a broader level, they evoke the transient lives of all beings — carrying their own narratives through the absurdity of existence, on wheels, on the move, all the time. The very book on the move is Damaged But Well — a book of writings and a catalogue of the further-developing objects, returning text from three-dimensional space back to the traditional paper surface.
Melodramatic Reflection: Migrating Text marks the first collaborative exhibition by Sun Jaegal and Jasper Strassburger, founding members of Studio Nullzweieins.
einBuch #43
Damaged But Well
Jaegal Sun, 2026
12 x 17 cm, 392 pp; English
Single-sided print, hardcover linen square bound
Edition of 50
Damaged But Well is a collection of short writings gathered from the minutiae of everyday life — impressions too brief for prose, too persistent to ignore. Handwritten and typeset, scattered across single-sided pages, these fragments resist linear reading. They ask to be encountered rather than consumed.
Our daily lives are filled with fleeting emotions — some that make us boil over or tear up without reason. Though all-consuming in the moment, these episodes fade almost absurdly fast. This impermanence is unsettling. The persistent hope of capturing the ungraspable — writing it down, drawing it, typing it — is what drives these pages. Not to resolve the feeling, but to hold it still long enough to look at it.
The book exists in two ways at once. As an artist book, it is complete in itself — a space where concrete poetry meets personal record. As a catalogue, it is the source material from which the mirrors of the Melodramatic Reflection series and keytags of KEY TXT series are made. Text that begins on the page migrates into glass, acrylic, and light — and in this book, returns home.
A book for your everyday delight and despair.
Artist
Sun Jaegal's practice begins with language — not only for its meaning but for its form. Drawn to the nonlinear possibilities of text, she treats writing as spatial and physical material, capturing fragments of everyday life and migrating them into objects, surfaces, and space. Her work is rooted in the belief that what is fleeting can be made graspable, and what is private can resonate universally.
Jasper Strassburger brings an architectural sensibility to the studio — a trained eye for structure, material, and the tactile qualities of form. His practice moves between the precision of functional furniture and the open-ended territory of conceptual objects, drawn to the tension between utility and inquiry. Slick surfaces, metal, and dark woods are his native materials. Together, as Studio Nullzweieins, they occupy the space where language meets structure — where a mirror is also a page, and a keytag is also a poem.
Sun Jaegal studied graphic design in Seoul and London. Jasper Strassburger studied architecture in Germany. Since then, neither has stayed entirely within their field.
Studio Nullzweieins, founded Berlin 2024
