Trudi Jaeger's exhibition at Oseana is both a natural continuity of her previous work, and the start of something new. A central part of the process in several of Jaeger's previous projects is the act of walking. Her new exhibition is based on the long term and ongoing, project ‘Illuminations Atlanterhavet’, where she explored vulnerable and threatened coastal areas facing the Atlantic Ocean, from the Outer Hebrides and Brittany to the moors of Western Norway. Underway the project has changed course, and the act of walking has moved from coast to forest, including the forest close to Lysekloster. The exhibition is thus part of the result of continuous work, but the movement from coast to forest has initiated new artistic developments. As she herself says: ‘We don't just discover, we explore and investigate, and in that process, we are taken to new places’. This involves new motifs, colours and techniques.

The exhibition title ‘Fragments from a forest trail (Parfois je pense, parfois je suis)’ leads us straight into the subject, the forest, and at the same time points out that the forest consists of fragments - the sun glinting between the foliage, trees swaying in the wind, damp moss growing on the forest floor and gurgling water from a stream. The French quotation within the exhibition title, an aphorism by the poet Paul Valéry, can be translated as ‘Sometimes I think, sometimes I am’. Valéry plays with Descartes' famous sentence – ‘I think, therefore I am’, which posits thought as fundamental to our existence. Valéry makes us aware of how our access to the world can be both immediately sensual and shaped by the interpretation of our thoughts. Like a clearing in the forest where you stop, rest, and then try to keep the image of it fixed in your memory as the act of walking continues.

Something between the Sea and the Strand. Abstracts from a Hebridean Journey. Exhibition by Trudi Jaeger at Grieghallen, Bergen. 15 June–31 July 2021. Curated by Marianne Morild, Kunstgarasjen. In June 2019 Trudi Jaeger made a journey to the northern Outer Hebridean islands of Lewis and Harris for the first time. Fragile landscapes, situated on the outer edges of Europe. Places of myths and history. Parts of these places are disappearing because of climate change. This exhibition is part of Jaeger’s on-going project on vulnerable and threatened landscapes facing the Atlantic Ocean.

TRUDI JAEGER, Something between the Sea and the Strand. Abstracts from a Hebridean Journey. Galleri Langegården, 18 January–9 February 2020.

Quartus Illuminations – Atlas Littoralis. Trudi Jaeger, exhibition at Kunsthuset Kabuso. 14.04.–20.05. 2018

Trudi Jaeger – Drawing for Unreal Times II – exhibition at BOA, Oslo. 01.03–18.03. 2018

In the Light of Day – Drawing for Unreal Times I — Trudi Jaeger, Lyngheisenteret, Lygra, 18.06.–09.07. 2017

Laurisilva and other Wanderings – Trudi Jaeger, exhibition at Galleri Langegården, 2015. This exhibition was the first presentation of the project Illuminations Atlanterhavet. The works mainly related to a residency in North-West Tenerife in the Autumn of 2014. The works from this island were put up against other series.

Exhibition by Trudi Jaeger at PROSJEKTROMMET, Bergen, 2014. This installation was an attempt to intertwine two different types of light. Natural light and lamplight illuminating the more intimate spaces. Specially constructed tables and steel frames. Textiles/walls made of cotton organdie.

The exhibition Umbrian Sequences was the result of a three-week journey in the Italian region of Umbria in 2002.

The exhibition Umbrian Sequences was the result of a three-week journey in the Italian region of Umbria in 2002.