Monica Ursina Jäger "Outlands"
20 FEB 09 - 11 APR 09
half forgotten dreams.7
2009
engraving on cathode ray tube
35 x 42 x 45 cm
2009
engraving on cathode ray tube
35 x 42 x 45 cm
half forgotten dreams.9
2009
engraving on cathode ray tube
35 x 42 x 45 cm
2009
engraving on cathode ray tube
35 x 42 x 45 cm
Should we have stayed home and dreamt of here?
2008
Ink on paper
149 x 219 cm, framed
2008
Ink on paper
149 x 219 cm, framed
loophole #2
2009
ink on paper
40 x 50 cm
2009
ink on paper
40 x 50 cm
loophole #1
2009
ink on paper
40 x 50 cm
2009
ink on paper
40 x 50 cm
high tide
2009
ink on paper
40 x 50 cm
2009
ink on paper
40 x 50 cm
off the map
2009
ink on paper
118 x 214 cm, framed
2009
ink on paper
118 x 214 cm, framed
Showdown # 2
2007
pigment on paper
40 x 30 cm, gerahmt
2007
pigment on paper
40 x 30 cm, gerahmt
takeover #2
2007
Ink on paper
40 x 30 cm, framed
2007
Ink on paper
40 x 30 cm, framed
entertainment # 5
2007
Pigment transfer on paper
40 x 30 cm, gerahmt
2007
Pigment transfer on paper
40 x 30 cm, gerahmt
Monica Ursina Jäger
Outlands
Exhibition: February 21 – April 11, 2009
Opening: Friday, February 20, 7 – 9 pm
Monica Ursina Jäger (*1974) studied at Goldsmiths College in London until 2008. In 2007 she received the Swiss Art Award and had a solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Thun in 2008.
In her exhibition at Galerie Rupert Pfab the artist is showing large format ink drawings and sculptures. Her rather surreal scenes appear to be abstract vedute teeming with secrets. These futuristic landscapes cannot be termed as either “natural” or “artificial”, but they are certainly daunting and at the same time infused with a notion of hope. Above all, the works have the effect of drawing viewers inside their irritating and fascinating imaginative sphere.
The artist’s drawings and sculptures find their origins in the terms and conditions of our natural and constructed modern environment, and explore political and social issues as well as the realm of imagination.
Monica Ursina Jäger, who lives and works in London, explains her work as follows:
“Expressed through drawings and sculptures my work investigates in the notion of social, political, but also imaginary aspects of the places we live in. Natural and urban elements blend into dystopian constructions, while disparate found objects and mediated image fragments join to become imaginative constructions.
I’m fascinated by the relationship between the physical environment and mediated experience and the possibilities that occur with the dissolution of reality and fiction, authentic and appropriated imagery, real and simulated spaces, actual places and their representations.
‘Half Forgotten Dreams’ consists of cathode ray tubes, the inner remains of TV monitors, which have been engraved with meticulously rendered drawings. At first sight the viewer expects to discover a conventional video image on the screen. But at a closer look he recognizes the physical quality of the static images, which become one with the object.
This series takes its interest from the mediated perception of places and landscape as such. The drawings use the landing on the moon as a prototypical example for the conception of reality through images. The tubes investigate in the blurring of fiction and reality and are at the same time a reflection on the history of media reality.”
More works by Monica Ursina Jäger will be on show at “Compilation IV,” an exhibition devoted to contemporary drawing and collage at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf between May 30 and August 9, 2009.
Outlands
Exhibition: February 21 – April 11, 2009
Opening: Friday, February 20, 7 – 9 pm
Monica Ursina Jäger (*1974) studied at Goldsmiths College in London until 2008. In 2007 she received the Swiss Art Award and had a solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Thun in 2008.
In her exhibition at Galerie Rupert Pfab the artist is showing large format ink drawings and sculptures. Her rather surreal scenes appear to be abstract vedute teeming with secrets. These futuristic landscapes cannot be termed as either “natural” or “artificial”, but they are certainly daunting and at the same time infused with a notion of hope. Above all, the works have the effect of drawing viewers inside their irritating and fascinating imaginative sphere.
The artist’s drawings and sculptures find their origins in the terms and conditions of our natural and constructed modern environment, and explore political and social issues as well as the realm of imagination.
Monica Ursina Jäger, who lives and works in London, explains her work as follows:
“Expressed through drawings and sculptures my work investigates in the notion of social, political, but also imaginary aspects of the places we live in. Natural and urban elements blend into dystopian constructions, while disparate found objects and mediated image fragments join to become imaginative constructions.
I’m fascinated by the relationship between the physical environment and mediated experience and the possibilities that occur with the dissolution of reality and fiction, authentic and appropriated imagery, real and simulated spaces, actual places and their representations.
‘Half Forgotten Dreams’ consists of cathode ray tubes, the inner remains of TV monitors, which have been engraved with meticulously rendered drawings. At first sight the viewer expects to discover a conventional video image on the screen. But at a closer look he recognizes the physical quality of the static images, which become one with the object.
This series takes its interest from the mediated perception of places and landscape as such. The drawings use the landing on the moon as a prototypical example for the conception of reality through images. The tubes investigate in the blurring of fiction and reality and are at the same time a reflection on the history of media reality.”
More works by Monica Ursina Jäger will be on show at “Compilation IV,” an exhibition devoted to contemporary drawing and collage at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf between May 30 and August 9, 2009.