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. ...
Sebastian Klemm and Silvia Bonsiepe founded KLEMM’S as a gallery for contemporary art in 2007. They represent artists from different generations, cultural backgrounds and media whose work is linked by their shared interests in the transformation of experienced reality and distinctive critique of contemporary social currents. Klemm’s supports positions and artists who work to overcome limitations in content and form, bringing new approaches to the interrogation of their medium.
It is important for Klemm’s to support and accompany the artists through the early stages of their development and steadily foster their development and careers in a progressive international context. In conceiving the program, it is essential for them to offer the artists a platform that allows their conceptual approaches to unfold individually and also to reflect upon and enhance each other.
Alongside solo exhibitions of represented artists, Klemm’s hosts carte-blanche projects by invited curators, artist-curated exhibitions and regular film screenings or artist talks. In an effort to promote and deepen the critical dialogue about the development of artistic expression, Klemm’s works closely with the artists to actively document their projects and new work with unique publications and artists’ books. ...
