• Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains
  • Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains
  • Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains
  • Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains
  • Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains
  • Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains
  • Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains
  • Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains
  • Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains

Jessica Backhaus What Still Remains

What Still Remains is the title of a photo series made up of 65 works created since 2006 in various locations. After her first book, Jesus and the Cherries, about life in rural Poland, the German-American photographer Jessica Backhaus now pursues in this new cycle of photographs the question of why things that have been forgotten or left behind pop up in specific places and then seem to take on a life of their own. Backhaus has succeeded here in capturing motifs that exude an air both sublime and enigmatic. Our gaze is transfixed as we attempt to unravel the mystery of what makes these banal objects so intriguing. In their composed beauty and expressiveness, Backhaus' photographs are reminiscent of still life paintings. But unlike the classical paintings depicting what were often artificial tableaux of objects meant to evoke aspects of vanitas, Backhaus manages to make time and transience palpable by framing scenes she comes upon by accident.


Hardcover 28 x 25 cm 96 pages 43 color illustrations English Available ISBN 978-3-86828-019-7 2008

Texts:

Jean Dykstra

Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

"Carl Schuch und die zeitgenössische Stillleben-Fotografie"
2013 – 2014
Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen
10.05. – 02.06.2013
Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg
14.07. – 8.09.2013
Städt. Kramer-Museum, Kempen
22.09. – 24.11.2013
Kunstsammlungen, Zwickau
06.12.2013 – 16.02.2014


Solo Exhibitions

Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery, Amsterdam
25.05. – 29.06.2013, Opening 25.05.2013

Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg
06.09. – October 2013

Kunsthalle Erfurt
19.09. – 24.11.2013

UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR, Robert Morat Galerie Booth, Amsterdam
25.09. – 29.09.2013

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
October – November 2013, Opening 05.10.2013

Stieglitz 19, Antwerpen
November – Dezember 2013

Maison de la Photographie, Lille
Winter 2013/14

Micamera Galerie, Milan
Spring 2014

Photographica Fine Art, Lugano
Spring 2014

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