Jana Kießer
The stone looks like a heart
The stone looks like a heart
In 2022 I began to work with my grandmother’s artistic legacy – Elisabeth Kießer (1936-2021), a visual artist and graphic designer who left more than 250 watercolors, sketches, clay sculptures, painted wooden objects, silk scarves and illustrated books.
After Elisabeth’s passing, I discovered similarities between my grandmother‘s paintings and my own photographs. I began to explore the connection between women, nature and art and started to combine my own work with my grandmother’s.
In August 2023 I showed two images of the project for the first time as part of the group show "Flora&Fauna&" curated by Caroline Corleone at Lobe Block in Berlin. On the rooftop: watercolor poppies by Elisabeth Kießer, ca. 1962, printed on a flag and on the ground a poppy photograph I took in 2022, embedded in the soil and plants of the Lobe Garden beds.
The elements of earth and air connect the two images as well as Elisabeth and me. When I took the poppy photograph, I wasn’t yet aware of my grandmother's poppy painting.
In April 2024 I showed the work in an exhibition at VILLIBALD in our hometown Nuremberg. Currently I'm exhibiting the project at the Experimental Photo Festival in Barcelona.
The work includes two short films for which I collaborated with my mother Iris Kießer-Koriako.
You can follow the project on Instagram!
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