Jenny Schäfer | Aggregate (rock)

If aggregate is understood as an external combination of elements, the exhibition shows an observation of diverse rock states without claiming to be exhaustive. Rather, the aim is to show a meandering encircling of the object.

The artist subsumes the exhibited works "Aggregat (Gestein)" under the work complex "Steine wälzen", in which she carries out a lyrical examination of rock from its natural, untouched appearance to its appearance in everyday human life. The works on display not only pose the question of use, but also that of an understanding of aesthetics in different living environments. The pause in the exhibition shows a fragmentary, photographic investigation of rock formation in the broadest sense. The growing societal endeavour to control nature will be explored and the question of how the human urge to live in harmony with nature, at least superficially, manifests itself in everyday life will be examined. What possibilities does photography have to convey an idea of living worlds through cropped images?

Jenny Schäfer repeatedly presents her pictures in spatial picture installations as well as in artist's books. She is also interested in the different recording and reproduction processes. Her photographs do not assert a single reality, but in their compositions and superimpositions they do assert a possible perception of reality(ies).

The stones were already alive before the plants,
before animals, before people.
Now they are waiting. I have to think of the blue planet,
where it rains liquid glass. The stones sleep,
until the madness comes to an end. (post shit time)