With her objects and sculptures, Elizabeth Jaeger succeeds in exploring the relationship between corporeality and perception, between consciousness and emotion. Often engaging with the insights of a personal experience or the observation of a situation, her works create environments that are mildly surreal and focus on the interconnectedness of all living beings.
Her materials are simple, but haptic and ‘auratically’ charged: clay, ceramics, plaster, steel, silk and glass are means to create a new visual vocabulary: strangely familiar, uniquely fascinating. If earlier series by the artist focused on a direct engagement with the representation and (socio)cultural gaze on the female body and figuration, over the past years Jaeger’s work has been developing an ambivalent formal language. Borrowed from amorphous shapes and fantasy, abstract forms based on flora and fauna are combined with strictly geometric steel constructions in uncanny sculptural beings; and miniature worlds appear as glimpses of everyday life witnessed by the viewer from a bird’s eye view. Elizabeth Jaeger’s works have a psychological dimension: they are physical objects and at the same time vessels for the “soul” and the world of thoughts.
Jaeger‘s sculptures rely on the one hand on the dynamism of their materialities and the play between familiar form and abstract refraction on the other. In the process, they openly express their personal content and their emotional urgency. Their special quality lies in this very immediacy. ...
