Paper snake is a collaborative initiative. An inter-department artistic undertaking that aimed to merge the various skills and talents across different classes of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in an effort to converge student practices around a central concept, to produce an artwork.

The Project is titled Paper Snake. Owing to its concept of texture and complex layer-building and shedding, which is inspired by the skin of the snake.

Paper Snake invited artists to participate in the texturing process of two 25-meter-long paper works.
In an experimental feat that encourages all media compatible with paper, like drawing, painting, printing, folding, ink staining, watercolouring etc. in a task towards texture and complex layer-building. One that brings together several artistic approaches onto paper, to interact, communicate, complement and contradict one another, as a cohesive work.

The finished works reflect not only a visual representation of textured layers and complex structuring, but also embody the layering of the multiple artistic positions from the various classes and departments that made the project possible.

Curated by Rafael Hofmann, Kweku Okokroko, Maria Pylypenko of the Drawing Class, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna