Monica Ursina Jäger: Shifting Topographies

The practice of the artist Monica Ursina Jäger stands out through a multidisciplinary reflection of spatial, landscape, and architectural concepts, which sound out the relationship between the natural and built environment. As research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Environment and natural resources of the Zurich University for Applied Sciences ZHAW, the artist is researching the development of new forms of dialogue between artistic practices and scientific research. In the interplay between the intuitive, the narrative, and the documentary she examines transformation, reorganization, and mediation processes, by questioning the borders between scientific and artistic knowledge production. The catalog for the cabinet exhibition in the Museum Franz Gertsch shows next to Jäger's most recent works-in those she deals with post-natural landscapes, the anthropocene, and the geopolitical dimensions of natural resources-a documentation of the site-specific room installation "Shifting Topographies," which was made for the museum, in which the relationship between the opposite organisms forest and city is examined.