The island of memory

Collect? What for? Uli Sigg claims the action of making sense of this addiction, refusing to identify it with the wild consumerism of art for art. He received us at his residence on a small island in the Swiss lake Mauensee, where his impressive collection of contemporary Chinese art fills, with its silent presence, all spaces of this castle-house, turned into a living museum, inhabited. Menene Gras, well versed in his work, carefully analyzes the process of creating of one of the most significant collections today.