EXHIBITION

JESPER JUST | A Ruin in Progress

Galleri Nicolai Wallner, 01/17/2014 - 03/01/2014

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Galleri Nicolai Wallner is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of works by Jesper Just entitled A Ruin in Progress. For the first time in his career, Jesper Just combines the mediums of photography, film and sculpture in this new exhibition, creating an interactive, immersive environment which purposefully underlines the works' shared thematics. 

With the photographic series A Ruin in Progress (Intercourses) (2014), the location of the work is built on a set of contradictions that produce an unsettling ambiguity. The work appears to take place in a futuristic or alternate Paris, as iconic elements such as the Eiffel Tower and imposing European architecture are mixed with subtropical vegetation and decay. The location appears to be in a perpetual state of both grown and decay, as structures appear to both be under construction as well as abandoned, left in ruins. Crumbling architecture, derelict paths and other man-made structures represent the quiet vestiges of what once had potential. While not made directly explicit within the work, the real-life location of the photographs is a city in China that was built with the idea to emulate the architecture and feeling of Paris. The juxtapositions of this location are carefully exposed, as the work provides vivid yet fleeting glimpses into this alternate reality, leaving the spectator with unanswered questions as to what was not captured. 

 
 

 

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