Jil Lahr

Jil Lahr born 1991 in Luxembourg currently lives and works in Hamburg.

In her interdisciplinary practice the artist’s work oscillates between painting, objects and installations.

The artist’s method is characterized by a fascination for the act of collecting. In her, mostly site specific and across space installations, she weaves together found objects, paintings and ceramic objects, re-arranging them to evoke new narratives and meanings. The act of selecting, reassembling and storing these objects serves not only as a testament to personal experience and observation but also as a catalyst for the emergence of new forms of order and knowledge. Through her works, Lahr humorously bestows upon these objects a new structure of meaning, inviting viewers to reconsider their significance.

Through accumulation, subtraction but above all the sacralization of the seemingly familiar, the perspective is sharpened for the uniqueness hidden within it. Often encountered are themes such as the pataphysical theory, the act of collecting and presenting, triviality and traces of society. A conceptual manner lies within a continuous process of bringing diverse materials, observations and thoughts about the visible and invisible together. The works can be conceived as an interface or a boundary between the sacred and the profane, the physical and the immaterial, challenging social structures and revealing the complexities and contradictions of our globalized and hypercomplex civilization /era.

Lahr’s works are represented in numerous exhibitions and projects ranging from solo exhibitions to curation and collaborative, project-based cooperations.