ANNELIES JAHN

SPACIAL ARTEFACTS

“27. The concept of a work of art may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made.”
Sol LeWitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art, 1968
0-9, 1969 / Art-Language, May 1969. Reprinted in: Art Now, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971

I am a multi-disciplinary artist motivated by a desire to understand our relationship to place. This is in the context that the qualities of place are largely defined by our own perceptions, memories and habits and that we as individuals are fundamentally the measure of our own world.

In my artwork, I often use everyday found and discarded objects. The work takes the form of collecting, mapping and measurement. The materials are used in installation, intervention, assemblage, drawing, photography and video. This is underpinned by a determination to reuse materials, to minimize waste, making work of and from the world.

For me, work unfolds from all aspects of planning, making, unmaking, installing and de-installing. Therefore, I would add to Sol LeWitt’s Sentence 27, that the work may also involve the processes in which is it unmade. What I call, compressed measures and spatial artefacts come about through the de-installation of site-specific interventions. These autonomous, transportable objects and documentation carry the memory of those specific places and spaces and cover a period of time from 2015 to the present. Much of the work shown comes from a 2019-2020 residency at the National Art School studio at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.