Augur
Westfälischer Kunstverein•Jun 27, 2026 — Sep 20, 2026
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A leap – and a void. An augur imagines the future, finding inspiration in the unpredictable gestures of flight. In Steffani Jemison’s expansive exhibition, conditions of endurance and escape are linked in a continuous installation of sound, sculpture, drawing, and video.
The idea of moving within conditions of constraint strongly informs the practice of Steffani Jemison. Fugitivity has been a recurring concern in her visual and textual work, where flight does not appear as physical escape, but as a shifting condition of language, body, and thought. “[W]hat it is to flee and what it is to stay are entangled with what it is to fight”.[1] The point of departure for her solo exhibition in Münster is the ‘language of the birds’, a concept found across spiritual, mystical, and literary traditions that describes a divine and perfect language accessible only to the initiated. What begins as a symbolic figure gradually unfolds into method – a way of listening for meanings and gestures that…
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Augur
Westfälischer Kunstverein•Jun 27, 2026 — Sep 20, 2026
Press Release
A leap – and a void. An augur imagines the future, finding inspiration in the unpredictable gestures of flight. In Steffani Jemison’s expansive exhibition, conditions of endurance and escape are linked in a continuous installation of sound, sculpture, drawing, and video.
The idea of moving within conditions of constraint strongly informs the practice of Steffani Jemison. Fugitivity has been a recurring concern in her visual and textual work, where flight does not appear as physical escape, but as a shifting condition of language, body, and thought. “[W]hat it is to flee and what it is to stay are entangled with what it is to fight”.[1] The point of departure for her solo exhibition in Münster is the ‘language of the birds’, a concept found across spiritual, mystical, and literary traditions that describes a divine and perfect language accessible only to the initiated. What begins as a symbolic figure gradually unfolds into method – a way of listening for meanings and gestures that…
























































