Just Silence

At the heart of Just Silence lies a conceptual framework centered on silence—not merely as the absence of sound, but as a meditative, existential state. The artist interrogates silence in its many dimensions: spiritual silence and contemplation, and the atmospheric stillness among clouds. The exhibition ponders the ineffable quiet embedded in the act of living itself. These themes are manifested through a nuanced interplay of surfaces, textures, and sculptural volumes, articulated across various media.

The artist explains, ‘[My work is] a personal approach to trying to make the invisible of the conscious and subconscious psyche visible through [my chosen] materials. This is an ongoing process; it is very important to me. This is my life. Making shapes, families of shapes, putting them in a relationship with natural materials, such as sand, pebbles, leaves, different plants, barks, and shells, or even bringing them back as a reverence for nature. [It is] an intuitive dialogue between me and what is outside of me.‘

The exhibition encourages viewers to engage in contemplative looking, fostering a space where belief in the miraculous, the improbable, and the dualities within the human condition can be quietly held in balance. Just Silence positions Jakobovits’s practice within a broader philosophical and metaphysical discourse, inviting us to believe – in the incredible, in the miraculous nature of life, in the delicate balance of light and dark within us all. Often taking inspiration from the natural world, here, Jakobovits’ works resonate with a kind of inner music, one that asks nothing more than stillness, presence, and the willingness to listen.