Distant Thunder 22

In her sculptural works and installations, Elizabeth Jaeger explores the interrelationship between physicality, perception and consciousness. She frequently incorporates the perspectives of other life-forms into her work, for example through figurative animal representations, which reflect social relations or human existence in the face of current global problems. For Blickachsen 14, Jaeger created the bronze figure of a dog lying curled up, its wide-open eyes and pricked up ears giving the impression of anxious attention. The title of the work, “Distant Thunder”, suggests that the dog‘s interest is focused on a looming disaster that cannot (yet) be perceived by humans – a distant thunderstorm, for example, the sound of far-off battle, or even worse. In this way, the artist succeeds in evoking an ominous feeling in the viewer and expressing concern for an increasingly damaged and destroyed environment.
Elizabeth Jaeger studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the École nationale supérieure d‘art in Nancy and at Lewis and Clark College in Portland. She has since shown her work internationally in solo and group exhibitions, and is the co-founder and manager of a publishing house specializing in artists‘ books.