ADAM JEPPESEN. Extraits de la plaine. March 18th > May 13th 2017 PRESS RELEASE

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1 Contact > Juan Carlos Bendana-Pinel T > + 33 (0) P > + 33 (0) jc@bendana-pinel.com ADAM JEPPESEN Extraits de la plaine March 18th > May 13th , RUE DU PERCHE PARIS MARDI > SAMEDI 11H > 19H tél. > + 33 (0) fax > + 33 (0) mail > galerie@bendana-pinel.com

2 Adam Jeppesen Extraits de la plaine Exhibition from March 18th to May 13th 2017 Adam Jeppesen s works have a starting point in classic documentary photography. As an artist, he records and selects fragments from reality, crops them in a certain manner so that the selected motif acquires a particular meaning. Jeppesen works with photography and his pictures function as sharp, sensuous universes that are rich in detail and visualize the world as it looks. There is no manipulation or artificial staging. Jeppesen takes the tangible world at face value, in the sense that his artistic motif reality already exists, and does not need to be recreated or staged. Jeppesen s world of motifs alternate between depictions of landscapes and interiors, with a focus on atmospheric and meaningful details that are all registered with appreciable patience and calm. Time seems to be suspended. He allows places to appear as themselves and the pictures are composed according to the aesthetic qualities that appear in the world places with their own characteristics and spirit. Jeppesen has become known, over the past decade, for a body of work that is both meticulously edited and nakedly diaristic. The artist s distinctive style, which crystallized in his first major monograph, Wake (Steidl, 2008), located a space in between documentary and dream. Nostalgia remains important to Jeppesen, and many aesthetic decisions are still made by remembering, projecting and dreaming. The works emerging from his most recent travels, however, are primarily concerned with direct, immediate responses. This need for straight confirmation was borne of human necessity as the artist burrowed deeper than ever before into a dreamlike state. Some of the pictures are far from pristine. Grit jiggling in a box has gnawed the surface of certain negatives, leaving scuffs of evidence on the final prints that speak to the extended physical journey that the work shared with the artist. The occasional occurrences that most photographers will trash, such as light leaks and odd exposures, are allowed to live. Certain shots flirt with total abstraction. At the printing end of the process, Jeppesen is experimenting with unconventional, offhand and ephemeral techniques. The artist is keen to question the authority of the print, the end result, the expected conclusion of the photographic act. Adam Jeppesen (Kalundborg, Denmark, 1978) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark & Buenos Aires, Argentina EXHIBITIONS (Selection) : «Out of Camp», C/O Berlin, Germany (2016) «Touched Craftmanship in Contemporary Photography», Museum Het Schip, Amsterdam, Netherland (2016) «Mijn Vlakke Land», Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium (2015) «Tech 4 Change», Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway (2015) «Rendez vous with nature», Northern Photographic Center, Oulu, Finland (2013) «Flatlands Camp Project», National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark (2012) «Arctic», Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia (2011) Faaborg Museum, Faaborg, Denmark (2009) «New Danish Photography», Scandinavia House, New York, United States (2006) SCHOLARSHIPS (Sélection) : Aage og Yelva Nimbs Fond (2013) Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse (2013) Paul Rene Gauguins Fond (2012) The Danish Arts Foundation ( ) Fogtdals Fotografpris (2010) Ebba Celinders Legat (2009) COLLECTIONS : Ny Carlberg Fonden, Denmark Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherland Denver Art Museum, United States The Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark The Swedish Arts Foundation, Sweden The National Museum of Photography, Denmark Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts, Denmark Museum for fotokunst Brandts, Odense, Denmark Nykredit Fonden, Denmark C/O Berlin, Germany

3 Incahuasi I, 2016 Photocopy with pins 179 x 221 cm Edition : AP

4 Catamarca I, 2016 Photocopy and needles on Acid-free paper 111 x 89 cm Edition : AP

5 AR-Glacier Grande, 2015 Archival inkjet print on folded ricepaper (Triptyque) 142 x 112 cm (each) Edition : 5+ 2 AP

CHRISTIANE POOLEY. La forêt est là et me regarde. May 21st > July 2nd 2016 PRESS RELEASE

CHRISTIANE POOLEY. La forêt est là et me regarde. May 21st > July 2nd 2016 PRESS RELEASE Contact > Juan Carlos Bendana-Pinel T > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 P > + 33 (0) 6 14 71 21 81 jc@bendana-pinel.com www.bendana-pinel.com CHRISTIANE POOLEY La forêt est là et me regarde May 21st > July 2nd