In Germanic cultures, the sun is feminine, embodied as Sól or Sunna, a goddess whose journey across the sky sustains life and marks the passage of time. Maja Escher’s work has a collective and hybrid dimension, in which drawings, found objects, collaborative practices, and field research methods form part of the artist’s process in developing site-specific installations and research-driven projects. Clay, reeds, ropes, stones, vegetables, and other elements found or donated during fieldwork are often combined with riddles and fragments of popular culture, creating a tension between spirituality and science, magic and technology.
