• Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever
  • Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever

Jessica Backhaus Once, Still and Forever

"Once, Still and Forever" sets out a quest for traces of time and meaning – things that once were, still are and will stay forever. Some of the works in this latest photography series by Jessica Backhaus date from her last year in New York, where she made her home for 14 years. But others tell of her radical break with the past and her return to her old homeland, Europe. The personal and cultural changes honed her awareness and caused her to contemplate the fragility of our emotions and existence – thoughts the photographer translates into her own characteristic visual language. Darker nuances come to the fore in the still lifes; picture planes splinter, hinting at powerful transformations. At 16, Backhaus left Germany, only returning to Berlin 22 years later. What was once, still is and will forever remain is the artist's infallible instinct for pictorial composition, a deftness she continues to take to new heights. Her views of ostensibly prosaic scenes open up to us a cosmos of unforeseen meanings while evoking a mood of affectionate familiarity. She is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography in Germany today. Her work is exhibited and published internationally and is found in important collections.


Hardcover 24 x 29,5 cm 88 pages 55 color illustrations English, German Out of print ISBN 978-3-86828-323-5 2012

Texts:

Jean-Christophe Ammann, Jessica Backhaus, Elisabeth Biondi

Awards

Selected title German Photo Book Award 2013

Exhibitions

Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery, Amsterdam
25.05. – 29.06.2013

Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg
06.09. – 31.10.2013

Kunsthalle Erfurt
19.09. – 24.11.2013

UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR, Robert Morat Galerie Booth, Amsterdam
25. – 29.09.2013

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Oct. - Nov. 2013

Stieglitz 19, Antwerpen
Nov. – Dec. 2013

Maison de la Photographie, Lille
Winter 2013/14

Micamera Galerie, Milan
Spring 2014

Photographica Fine Art, Lugano
Spring 2014

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