Lundi 18 Juillet 2016 17:17:47 par Emilie Lemoine dans Expositions

C/O Berlin is presenting the Out of Camp exhibition by Danish photographer
 Adam Jeppesen from July 16th to September 25th, 2016.

The opening will take place on Friday, July 15th, 2016 at 7 pm in the Amerika Haus located in Hardenbergstraße 22-24, 10623 Berlin.

All alone from the north pole to the Antarctic in 487 days – a journey in total solitude. Beyond the traditional experience of space and time. Always with the camera in tow to document the rugged landscapes and vast expanses. The photos serve as a con rmation for certain mo- ments that nevertheless appear as the enigmatic presentation of a distorted reality. Did I really experience it like that? And how can I convey this existential experience? In the current series, Adam Jeppesen reconstructs his adventures less with the content of the photos themselves and more with their presentation.

© Adam Jeppesen

The surfaces of the negatives acquired scratches, spots and dust deposits during the trip – concrete traces of the expedition. Traces that Adam Jeppesen consciously maintained and continued to develop. By using different processes, he‘s able to free the photograph from its typical two-dimensionality. In this way, he carved up the XCopy series into manageable for- mats, copied them and nally stitched them back together to recreate the original motif. The segmenting and reassembling of imperfect elements expands his prints by adding a performa- tive, sculptural aspect – photography is more of an object in this instance than of a mere copy. In the Folded series by contrast, he periodically folds the landscape motifs printed on rice pa- per. In this way, a delicate network of DIN A4 pages forms large sequences with the images – a tenuous framework on which barely visible lines allow the viewer to orient himself. Instead of through the width of the photographic surface, the image manifests its detailed elements through depth. In the Ghosts series, Adam Jeppesen also experiments with the printing pro- cesses of the photographic medium. It was at that point that he changed the photogravure technique so that the printing block was not coated with ink for each printing but rather just once – allowing the scenes to then fade away page by page like a specter. Until in the end, only the white surface remains and the decision of which image is the “perfect” one is con- sciously left to the viewer. Yet in Scatter, he breaks down the overall context of the images and photographic surface into individual parts and blurred pixels. In contrast to his previous series, he doesn’t reassemble them but rather leaves them in their atomized form – the eye must nd its own way through abstraction and concrete detail. A visual journey that questions familiar photographic forms of appearance and perception in a light-hearted manner.

© Adam Jeppesen


© Adam Jeppesen

For these arrangements, Adam Jeppesen is interested in the aesthetic value of the imperfect elements, the search for balance between purity, perfection and the damaged portion therein – the physical vestiges and imprints, which are so easily left behind and so seldom examined. The studio is an equally important part of this process as the journey itself. Because the sub- sequent artistic interventions into printing processes, material and type of presentation make the photographs into objects of art that cannot be considered to be isolated from this special processing method. Photography as a physical process – the reproducible medium becomes an artistic object and something unique.

C/O Berlin is presenting the rst comprehensive Adam Jeppesen exhibition in Germany. The exhibition consists of around 80 different works and was curated by Ann-Christin Bertrand.