Installation by Rosa Jaisli
in the pavilion of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus
March / April 1996
Clay, sand, and straw are the materials from which the sculptor Rosa Jaisli shapes her new works. The material clay lends these pieces a completely new expression and almost stands in opposition to the strict formal vocabulary found in her stone works.
For this very reason, the sculptor also emphasizes the playful and experimental dimensions of this work, the transient and process-based nature of it, and the effect of its matte surface texture and ochre-colored earth.
Her themes are architectural landscapes, abandoned places, dwellings like beehives, closely bound to the ground.
Between them appear spiral housings that expand from center to periphery, defining the relationship between interior and exterior space and awakening memories of archaic cultures.
Through the accumulation and arrangement of these “vessel spaces”, a very distinct organic web of tension emerges: from nature, the path leads into architecture, yet what has been built appears as a fragment that reveals the magic and myth of human existence in its relationship to nature while at the same time making us conscious of human transience.