In the meeting point between a sharp European line and local materiality, the works of Jasmin Wennersbusch — a young German artist living and working in Israel — are woven into being.
Her visual language emerges from a Sisyphean process of geometric ornamentation: precise, repetitive, almost meditative striping. This is a language that seeks to delineate borders, to organize the surface, to articulate a clear and recurring gesture. Yet from within this ordered language, another movement begins to unfold: lines melt, narrow, or slip; they merge with the vessel’s surface and at times even engrave into it, forging a new relationship between form and ornament.
This shift — from the abstract to the material, from the symmetrical to the organic — is not merely aesthetic. It reflects an inner process of surrender, perhaps of acclimation to a new place, of a different sensitivity to landscape, to light, to time. Her works hold a dual motion: inward — into her meticulous, disciplined world; and outward — into a poetic, open space that does not shy away from disruption, deviation, or mistake. The material is gradually granted more freedom, and the vessels — even as they retain formal integrity — oscillate between craft and sculpture, between the functional and the artistic.
Like the title of the exhibition, “Transitional Matter,” the works themselves engage with movement, transformation, ongoing becoming. They are a texture of time — time embedded in the hand’s motion, in the gaze, in the slow rhythm of a creation that harbors no desire for swift completion. The vessels may serve as containers, but they no longer seek to contain. They stand on their own, as objects imbued with both stillness and daring, precision and liberty — present, resonant, inviting a slow, attentive gaze of the kind we have almost lost.

Curator: Adi Shabtay Pappo
Photographer: Shay Ben Efraim

31.07. - 30.08.2025
B.Y5 Gallery: The Library
Bar Yokhai St. 5, Tel Aviv-Yafo

https://artsinisrael.org/artist_wall/חומר-מעבר/