Elisabeth Jahrmärker (born 1985) studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin- Weißensee and at the EnsAD Paris. She lives and works in Berlin where typical construction sites are her special focus.

"In my works, I want to create a simultaneity of compression and dissolution, an intermediate space in which truthfulness can take place. The focus is particularly on building sites, which symbolize the processual, raw and honest aspects of our lives. Excerpted photographs of physical construction sites and the materials used there become the impetus for painterly and installation works.

I am particularly interested in the unfinished, the raw, the radical of a building site in contrast to the superficial, well-designed, supposedly perfect and intangible of our digital age.

High-end products and more appearance than reality - we often only see what is, but rarely the paths, the highs and lows, the weak points, the strengths - we remain on the surface - we bounce off it, slip, fall. What remains is emptiness.

I want to offer a foundation to reflect on fundamental values and to come into true being."

Photo: Dale Grant