11/02/2021
WEEKLY WINDOW #2
With the gallery closed until further notice, WEEKLY WINDOW is an alternating presentation in our window at Linienstrasse 107 in Berlin, showing highlights from the gallery program - a new piece every week! While a work is on display, context and info on the print, the artist and the project will be given on Instagram.
Today: WEEKLY WINDOW #2
Jessica Backhaus „Unfolding“, 2015, C-Print, 85 x 127 cm, edition of 5.
Jessica Backhaus, born in 1970, is considered one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography out of Germany today. Her work is published and exhibited internationally and can be found in important collections such as the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Margulies Collection in Miami or the Deutsche Börse Collection in Frankfurt. Backhaus studied in Paris in the 1990ies and started her career in New York, where she lived between 1995 and 2010. She has since returned to her native Germany and today lives and works in Berlin.
This image, titled „Unfolding“, showing torn wrapping paper, a gift in the process of being unpacked, is taken from her highly acclaimed series „Six Degrees of Freedom“ from 2016. Here, as in her previous documentary work, notably “Jesus and the Cherries” (2005), “What Still Remains” (2008) or “Once, still and forever” (2011), Jessica Backhaus develops a strong sense for the melancholy of the everyday and the emotional quality of color and light. But the project also marks an important turning point in Backhaus‘ work, introducing abstractions and staged studio still lives. It is also is by far her most personal work: “It is about my roots and the memory that is attached to them. The series assembles visual associations, reflections that are like fragments of my past, yet at the same time stand for the very universal experience of searching for the key to one’s personal identity“, says Jessica Backhaus. The book to the series “Six Degrees of Freedom” was published at Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg
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