Elizabeth Jaeger—Resent the Sky

›Resent the Sky‹, Elizabeth Jaeger’s latest exhibition at Klemm’s, is a visual choreography navigating grief and power. A chorus of coffin-sized steel frames is rigorously ordered, each bearing gunmetal-blackened tubes that reach skyward. Planted inside these upright barrels are hand-formed ceramic flowers: fragile, fire-hardened, and laboriously made. They present as offering, protest, and aftermath. Together, they rise in a strict yet undulating gradient behind a reclining sculpture of two species. The figures lie in intentionally nightmarish ambiguity: tenderness laced with violence, protection entangled with control. As an installation, ›Resent the Sky‹ wrestles with ›Weltschmerz‹, heartbreak, and scale shock—how grief is painfully stretched between the intense intimacy of personal loss and the overwhelming abstraction of mass tragedy.