© Anja Jensen
Galerie f5,6 Ludwigstr. 7 Odeonsplatz 80539 Munich Allemagne
Anja Jensen (1967) considers the main characteristic of her work to be the deep connection of the photograph and the place of its origin. Exploring local environments and experiencing their rules and terms, regarding society, history and individual stories, constitutes the basis of her photography and installation projects. Her goal is to uncover every single facet of places by using locals, their story and connection to a specific spot.
Jensen tries to make the environment talk. This requires authentic people as well as sites, and so every staged photograph is based on a location and a person linked to each other. She calls them her experts of the story behind the photograph or accomplices in staging a scene. The protagonists are never professional actors or models. A dense search-light is shun directly onto the protagonists, the spotlighting is forcing them out of their secretive spaces. Being put in scene makes them reveal unspoken fears, express wishes and longing. It procures a general statement unveiling a place otherwise hidden by many overlapping levels of consciousness. Without blunt pictorial language and often by looking onto the scene from birds eye perspective - emulating undiscovered security cameras - Jensen is trying to provoke the viewers to not only read the visual story, but to create their own. This body of work, located between voyeurism and monitoring, is called „Itʼs for security“. The most recent additions to this ongoing project since 2001, came into being during many visits to the german islands Föhr and Amrum. While the seaside isnʼt a new topic and interest to Jensen, the presentation of some of the photographs is. The artist decided to start using back-lit box frames for some images for which the peculiar sceneries gained even more expressiveness - absorbing the viewers attention and hence luring them even more into the eerie landscapes captured in twilight.
© Anja Jensen
© Anja Jensen
Vignette & photos © Anja Jensen
