Artists

Jasmine Werner

Press release

Jasmin Werner’s artistic practice employs sculptural forms to explore the infrastructures and lived experiences of global migration. Her works address the aesthetic and political dimensions of labor migration by attending to its unseen economic and emotional transactions. In her latest body of works presented in her second solo exhibition Remote Control at Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Werner’s installations offer a glimpse into the economies and communication technologies that migrants use to sustain transnationally dispersed lives.

At the center of Remote Control is an image of an admiral butterfly painted onto a prefabricated roller shutter. The work stems from the series Send Money Fast (2023), a set of painted shutters that Werner produced with the Berlin sign painter Dawid Celek. The collaboration emerged when Werner took notice of signs that Celek painted on the shutters of a store in the district of Moabit. The store sells second-hand mobile phones and offers Western Union services, which migrant communities use to transfer monetary remittances back to their home countries. Drawing on the painted shutter as an aesthetic advertisement of this migrant economic infrastructure, the artist commissioned Celek to adorn one of the shutters with a painting of the admiral butterfly—a migratory species whose cyclical North-South journeys symbolize migration under conditions of globalization.