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 Gisèle Münzner is a Swiss-based artist whose practice explores the intimate relationship between human emotion and water. Working primarily with handmade paper, she investigates the scientific concept of  Lachrymology — a poetic theory that connects the cycles of water in nature with the inner liquids of the human body. 

The connection she draws between natural and bodily waters is at once scientific and poetic. Oceans and lakes, rivers and the moon hold vast histories of time, while the smallest drop of a tear carries an equally deep personal history. Fog, rain, and snow move invisibly through air, just as emotions move silently through the body. Both systems are cycles of release and return.

Her artworks embody this theory through material gestures: layered stacks of paper resemble sedimented time; suspended sheets recall waterfalls, veils, or cascades of memory; raised fibers echo the marks of touch, scars, or tears. Light and shadow play a central role, extending the works into their surrounding space and reinforcing their fragility and impermanence.

Münzner’s practice is grounded in the belief that fragility is not weakness but resilience. Torn edges, lifted fibers, and the silence of paper become reminders of how both bodies and landscapes hold and transform experience. They open a space for viewers to encounter their own memories, their own inner tides, their own unspoken weight.

Through Lachrymology, Gisèle Münzner proposes that the human body and the natural world are not separate, but continuous. Every drop of rain, every tear, every ocean wave belongs to the same rhythm — a rhythm of release, memory, and renewal.