Paperlegend

My name is Florian Weber and I work under the name Paperlegend, creating paper sculptures inspired by motorsport and car design. I studied Transportation Design in Pforzheim and later worked on cars for brands such as Porsche, McLaren and Volkswagen – my practice is built on proportion, surface and tension, the elements that define a car long before it ever moves.

My work explores what speed looks like when it stands still. Using paper as my main material, I translate the lines of racing cars, wind tunnels and aero maps into three-dimensional sculptures. Strips and surfaces behave like airflow: they wrap, peel off, fragment and pull the eye in a specific direction. By building everything by hand, I slow down a world that is normally defined by milliseconds and turn it into intricate, tactile objects that capture the same tension and energy.

In my practice, cars become memories, icons and dynamic shapes that dissolve into strips, layers and flows of paper. By rebuilding them in paper – often in fragments, abstractions or exaggerated silhouettes – I strip away function and leave only the essence: proportion, line and rhythm.

This approach began with 1:8 wall-mounted car sculptures, split along the centre line and hanging on the wall like three-dimensional drawings. Today, it extends into full-scale installations and large art projects, where paper is engineered into bodies, fragments and flows that occupy real space – light in weight, but built with the precision and attitude of motorsport.