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All these names were given to the future Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886) at birth, as if all the great kings and emperors of the Middle Ages had been invited to look into his cradle. But Ludwig II was born in the middle of the 19th century: Louis XVI was guillotined in 1793, Otto I of Greece was overthrown in 1862, and Bavaria had to join the new German Empire of the Prussian Hohenzollern dynasty in 1871, whose members were usually named Frederick and William. Ludwig II spent his first summers in the neo-Gothic castle of Hohenschwangau, the "paradise of his childhood", where he was transported to the fairy-tale Middle Ages of German Romanticism, dreaming in front of Moritz von Schwind's frescoes depicting the quest for the Grail and the legend of Lohengrin. But the "only true king" of the 19th century, according to Verlaine, was not made for constitutional monarchy, the industrial revolution or Bismarckian realpolitik, and his death as a Shakespearean hero in a lake made him a romantic icon. Failing to truly govern, he endeavored, with his architects and artists, to revive or give birth to a world that was at once bygone, abolished and fantastical, building refuges against the ugliness and brutality of the world. This desire to conjure up absence, of time as well as of matter, runs through Jenna Kaës' work, which could be the dreamy decor of an imaginary castle of Ludwig II of Bavaria, like an invitation to sit at the acidulous table of the Fisher King or at the banquet of Valhalla. Reliquaries without relics, her objects together constitute a medieval treasure, which by their grouping, their arrangement, their play of materials and forms, make absence present, and in turn become relics. The luminous flashes that run through them and are reflected in an ephemeral manner, without it being clear whether they are playing with the light or whether it is the light that is playing with them, blur the border between the real and the unreal, the material and the immaterial, between the object and its ethereal double. Her chalices, both metallic and alive, are like a Grail from which the blood has been withdrawn, metamorphosing it by its departure, merging the eternal and the ephemeral in a paradoxical union. Her candlesticks, veritable monuments to lost time, solidify the passage of hours measured by burnt-out candles, transformed into lost wax, definitively melted, only to be resurrected with the solid shine of metal. Gloucester's Romanesque candlestick featured the struggle between good and evil, silence and speech, shadow and light: Jenna Kaës' candlesticks share her stalagmitic forms, but they situate them in a kind of primordial chaos, Beyond Good and Evil. The passing and returning of time, depositing and withdrawing its sediments in the random ebb and flow of time, can also be seen in these ghostly tapestries, stained with foggy memories of distant hunts in Arcadian forests. The beads from which the spider webs that cover them are made, at once disquieting and childlike, come straight out of an old workshop for making funeral wreaths: these small pieces of glass have finally retained the function they originally had in cemeteries, where they framed the now half-faded photographs of the deceased. They try to ward off, in an ephemeral and consciously illusory way, the inexorable passage of time and the ineluctable absence that follows. Text&nbsp;Raphaël Bories - curator at Mucem (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, Marseille, France) https://jennakaes.com/Canop-urns Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:27:58 +0000 jennakaes.com https://jennakaes.com/Canop-urns https://jennakaes.com/keeper-masks Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:18:43 +0000 jennakaes.com https://jennakaes.com/keeper-masks <img width="8000" height="8000" width_o="8000" height_o="8000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a2ed2559956809377632e5c5e24898158d49686c5bce0352669b9b9a3d92a62/KEEPERSCONCE3_ojii.jpg" data-mid="237745678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a2ed2559956809377632e5c5e24898158d49686c5bce0352669b9b9a3d92a62/KEEPERSCONCE3_ojii.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="8000" height="8000" width_o="8000" height_o="8000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6449d1a09edf8ba810cbe6c0c5debbffaee430607bf0c66f620bbf4425f9e463/KEEPERSCONCE1_ojii.jpg" data-mid="237745682" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6449d1a09edf8ba810cbe6c0c5debbffaee430607bf0c66f620bbf4425f9e463/KEEPERSCONCE1_ojii.jpg" />&nbsp; 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&nbsp; &nbsp;A Deeper Shade of Soul, h3h biennial, Oosterhout, Netherlands. Cur. Nanda Janssen. Copper sulfate engraved zinc plates, wood soul and brass nails.Pictures_Peter Cox and studio pictures︎ 2025The walled garden of the Our Lady Abbey is normally closed to the public. Jenna Kaës’ gateway temporarily provides access to this English landscape garden. The writings of Hadewijch play a keyrole in the gateway. In the convent library, various nuns have occasionally delved into the visions,songs and letters of this 13th-century female poet and mystic. Jenna Kaës feels moved by Hadewijch’s search for inner emptiness and her desire to embrace theinfinite. According to the artist, Hadewijch’s texts on this subject remain surprisingly relevant eightcenturies later: they invite a deep dive into your inner self, a journey to the edge of nothingness. Theemptiness acts as a gateway to the immeasurable, which is the essence of these open doors. At the artist’s request, the nuns of the Our Lady Abbey chose an appropriate poem. They opted for a textfrom the school of Hadewijch, written in a South Brabantian variant of Middle Dutch. The gatewaydoors function like pages of a book. The space that appears in each panel represents the effect of Hadewijch’s words. The poem opens up, as it were, and points the way to another reality, an expanded awareness – a new dimension. For the shape of the entrance gate, Jenna Kaëswas inspired by the reliquary of Hildegard van Bingen, a showpiece in the collection of the Our Lady Abbey. For its construction, the artist used techniques that are also used for making relics and liturgical objects. The doors are covered with zinc plates, on which the text has been engraved using zinc-engraving techniques. These plates are attached to a wooden base with nails, with the nail heads arranged in a decorative pattern. The method whereby the plates interlock like puzzle pieces is called marquetry.Text Nanda Janssen https://jennakaes.com/Columbarium Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:16:52 +0000 jennakaes.com https://jennakaes.com/Columbarium <img width="8686" height="7003" width_o="8686" height_o="7003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/316f019574067ad3c5ed1f8f3c3cee7850751d3accab17b842697d07407ab3ef/2024_04_24_ColombariumBordeaux52.jpg" data-mid="237742032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/316f019574067ad3c5ed1f8f3c3cee7850751d3accab17b842697d07407ab3ef/2024_04_24_ColombariumBordeaux52.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="1670" height="1342" width_o="1670" height_o="1342" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbdbf6536db818302f509ca42eabc04b3b0d27b1bfcdb15d054058ef5a583d39/Capture-decran-2024-05-17-a-18.42.02.png" data-mid="237740789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbdbf6536db818302f509ca42eabc04b3b0d27b1bfcdb15d054058ef5a583d39/Capture-decran-2024-05-17-a-18.42.02.png" /> &nbsp; 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<img width="1672" height="1348" width_o="1672" height_o="1348" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59fce45f2ff5aef754357c6ce3f93b0c652206e9d92a24de884cfdc4e02d9eb8/Capture-decran-2024-05-17-a-18.37.20.png" data-mid="237740791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59fce45f2ff5aef754357c6ce3f93b0c652206e9d92a24de884cfdc4e02d9eb8/Capture-decran-2024-05-17-a-18.37.20.png" /><img width="8699" height="7019" width_o="8699" height_o="7019" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00b98f4c7731fc0a730e30889b45e9fcccb428ac56cb949fb5a2e9b37f04404a/2024_04_24_ColombariumBordeaux30.jpg" data-mid="237741947" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00b98f4c7731fc0a730e30889b45e9fcccb428ac56cb949fb5a2e9b37f04404a/2024_04_24_ColombariumBordeaux30.jpg" />Columbarium &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Columbarium of La Chartreuse cemetery, Bordeaux, France Public commission made in collaboration with Martial Marquet (architect) and Atelier Renan Rousselot (landscape architect) Pictures_Emile Barret︎ 2023The Columbarium and Memorial Garden of the Chartreuse Cemetery are the result of an architecture competition, won in 2022 by Jenna Kaës, designer; Martial Marquet, architect; and Renan Rousselot, landscape architect. It is a specific creation that combines artistic, architectural, and landscape elements. As a funerary monument designed to hold the urns of the deceased, the Columbarium rises amidst a wide Memorial Garden, where ashes are scattered or where visitors come to pay their respects. The structure consists of four walls housing around a hundred compartments, and the exterior features a collection of fragments and objects, all derived from abandoned old funeral monuments. These four walls outline a pathway winding through the Memorial Garden. The Columbarium is situated within the historical and aesthetic context of the Chartreuse Cemetery, a former monastic garden, which became both a cemetery and a philosophical park in the 19th century. It is a generously planted space where the Columbarium and the Memorial Garden are integrated into a true landscaped promenade. This space is both private and intimate, shielded from sight, and yet teeming with life thanks to the richness of the vegetation incorporated into the project. Observing the location and environment, one notices that it is placed in a quieter, greener part of the cemetery. The north and east sides offer a bucolic landscape of limestone and moss. This impression is reinforced by the reduced traffic of surrounding streets. Less noisy than the boulevards, the outskirts of the site, with its shifting gravesites due to clayey soil and spontaneous vegetation, evoke a poetic image of a living cemetery. Far from any gravesite, this site provides an opportunity to plant abundant vegetation, offering visitors a real sense of privacy within a garden filled with trees. The whole area is organized around a promenade through this garden, featuring a prominent entrance from the Bougie War Memorial and a more discreet exit along the pathway bordering the site. Between the entrance and exit, a series of spaces conducive to reflection are arranged, where stone and vegetation harmoniously dialogue. WITH A HISTORICAL, SYMBOLIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH, THE FUNERARY SLABS AND DECORATIONS, derived from abandoned graves and monuments of the Chartreuse Cemetery, have been used as the primary resource. The space is complemented by benches and an altar, each constructed from stones originally used within the cemetery. Some stones come from a Romanesque-style funerary chapel that collapsed during a stormy night in autumn 2022. These furnishings offer an “open use,” inviting ceremonial reflection upon arrival of a procession. The central stone table, reminiscent of a primitive altar, provides a place to lay the urn, flowers, or any other objects loved ones wish to incorporate into their ritual of deposit in the funerary monument. Through this ensemble, each individual, regardless of faith or none, can pause and reflect for a moment, in whatever manner they choose. The flexible, dignified, and adaptable format aims to suit every funeral ritual. A pathway leads to the Columbarium, a structure that appears as a passageway, opening up to a second garden upon entry. An open-air passage, in which each wall features a symphonic assembly of concrete drapes, cut to form the compartments’ doors. A decoration that evokes the motif of drapery, familiar in European cemeteries, expressing grace and solemnity through its flowing form. These flowing drapes invite visitors to place flowers, small stones, or other elements that help loved ones embody the memory of the deceased during moments of reflection. The exterior of this minimalist masonry ensemble, with its raw and understated materiality, highlights numerous ornaments taken from the site — reminiscent of a rubble wall, witnesses to the cemetery’s rich history and aesthetic. Cornus, service trees, maples, oaks, and Judean trees create a diversified and lush green setting. Over time, the panorama will take the form of a clearing surrounded by dense shrubbery and varied trees. The vegetation consists of native and diverse species. For economic and environmental reasons, hardy and well-adapted species have been planted to better adapt to the site conditions and to conserve water. This entire vegetal ensemble is considered the “Memorial Garden,” allowing the free dispersal of ashes in the shrubbery, where each person can choose a meaningful spot—whether a specific tree, near a bench, etc. Nomenclature and memorial plaques dedicated to the dispersed deceased are attached to the stone benches. Intentionally informal and based on the wishes of loved ones, this approach subtly unites the living and the dead — echoing traditional memorial benches along walkways. This composition of the Columbarium and Memorial Garden in the Chartreuse Cemetery of Bordeaux is freely accessible. Visitors can enter from either of the two garden entrances, with the option to continue along the established path or not, as they wish. It has been designed in harmony with the original space, allowing nature to evolve beyond the constructions. 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&nbsp;<img width="1653" height="1240" width_o="1653" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a2ff4d6610a47e1fa70c3aa3c1904f4ba538fa98ebe68771e864bc9690d27de/MDACR-2025-Jenna-Kaes-010.jpg" data-mid="237738663" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a2ff4d6610a47e1fa70c3aa3c1904f4ba538fa98ebe68771e864bc9690d27de/MDACR-2025-Jenna-Kaes-010.jpg" /> &nbsp;&nbsp;FadetsChâteau de Rochechouart - Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne.Fondation d’entreprise Hermès annual programme of Artists’ Residencies.&nbsp; pictures_Tadzio and Aurélien Molle︎ 2025During her residency, Jenna Kaës discovered the various trades practiced at the Maroquinerie de la Tardoire, in Montbron (in the central western French department of Charente). Immersing herself in local traditions, folklore and myth, she was drawn in particular to the fadet, a legendary, often mischievous creature associated with the world of fairies or pixies. This research resonated with her fascination for bats – nocturnal animals often attributed with evil powers, in the Western tradition. At the outset of her residency, Jenna Kaës visited the Château de Rochechouart, which immediately became integral to the mindscape of her project. Accompanied by artisans at the leather workshop – notably Cécile Coiteux and Emmanuel Villette – Jenna Kaës worked with off-cuts of black tanned leather, highlighting their mottled texture, and mounting them on brass frames to form majestic wings around a body in hand-blown glass. The resulting four pieces, in two different sizes, compose&nbsp;a family of hybrid creatures, alluring and troubling in equal measure.