Adam Jeppesen
Adam Jeppesen (born in 1978 in Kalundborg, Denmark) is a Danish visual artist.
Adam Jeppesen graduated from Fatamorgana – The Danish School of Art Photography in 2002, but today he works within a number of media other than photography and explores various materials and printing techniques such as printing on textile.[1] It is the aesthetic value of the imperfect[2], damaged[3] and discarded[4] that is explored in Jeppesen's works, which are also characterized by Jeppesen's labour-intensive approach[5] - both post and prior to the development. He gained international recognition with his Wake series, inspired by the backwoods of Finland, which was published as a book by Steidl in 2008. [6]
Key works and exhibitions
Wake
The series Wake has been created over a period of seven years[7] and was in 2008 published as a book by the German publishing house Steidl. The series consists of photographs that Jeppesen took while traveling alone on assignment, and the series therefore documents the constant change in the surroundings during his journeys. In that way, Wake functions as a visual register of the surrounding nature, but also of what seems indefinable. Because as the title also suggests, the photographs are somewhere between darkness and twilight, and in that way, they "obscure as much as they reveal".[8]
Flatlands Camp Project
Flatlands Camp Project was in 2012 exhibited at The National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen[9]. The series consists of a number of contemporary landscape photographs, which were shot during Jeppesen's 487-day long journey[10] from Arctica, through North and South America[11], to Antarctica[12]. Here, Jeppesen explored what role photography plays in our perception and memory[13] – and how these are affected by solitude.
But even though the series is characterized by personal experiences and impressions, it distinguishes itself from personal travel records, and neither do the images have much in common with traditional travel reportage.[14][15] Instead what emerged was a series of almost dream-like images.[16][17]. The analogue film from which the works have been developed contains damages, scratches, folds and other physical traces, which have also left their marks on the works.[18] These marks and artifacts of Jeppesen's process erode his originally sharp and clear images in much the same way as time and emotional distance can erode one's original experience of a place.[19] This transience and fragility is also found in Adam Jeppesen's later works, for example in The Great Filter from 2019.[20]
In Flatlands Camp Project, the creation process itself was just as important as the finalized works[21], which is why the works were produced throughout a long period of time following Jeppesen's journey. In that way, the journey has never ended, but has instead been continued through the postproduction[22]. Jeppesen's artistic interventions (the printing processes, materials and presentation) transforms the photographs into art objects that cannot be considered as distinct from the processing method and that explore photography as a physical process.[23][23]
The Pond
The Pond consists of both photographs and installations.[24] The series revolves around the pond as an allegory and is created out of a fascination with the processes through which something broken down in order to let something new emerge – and how these take place unaffected by humans. A wild environment does not allow itself to be controlled. It is thus the transformative aspect of transience that forms the foundation of the series.[25] The Pond consists of a number of cameraless depictions of hands, and the blue tone stems from the photographic process cyanotype, a chemical method that uses sunlight and where salts from the emulsion create a distinctive blue color[26]. This process is taken a stage further by Adam Jeppesen, who has moved from conventional cyanotypes to three-dimensional work with dyed cloth in The Pond,[27] which is strung in the middle of the tank.
Jeppesen's artistic practice often revolves around themes such as identity and discrepancy, but The Pond also works with a wider understanding of collectivism through the hand as motif. The hand symbolizes both the self and humanity as a whole, and this duality is central to the series.[28]
The Great Filter
In 2019, The Great Filter was presented at Kunstmuseum Brandts in Odense (2019-2020). The exhibition consisted of a large, flat work cast in porous concrete and spread out on more than 150 m2 as a landscape of collapsing forms.[29] Almost like sandcastles, these constructions where stood lined up next to each other, and creating something that could be interpreted as a city in the desert. Also, the sides of the installation were flanked by six sculptures in the same material, which had been placed in glass cases.[30]
This landscape of sand constructions stood as if frozen in the process of breaking down, and in that way, the work places itself somewhere between the perfect and the imperfect as well as between creation and destruction, which has been Jeppesen's focus in a large part of his oeuvre.
Selected exhibitions
Rencontres Arles / Centre de culture contemporaine de Nantes: On Earth (2020)
FOAM: On Earth (2020)
Kunstmuseum Brandts: The Great Filter (solo exhibition) (2019)
Black Box Projects: Fundamentals (2019)[31][32]
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Of Individuals and Places – Photographs from the Lazare Collection (2019)[33]
Chapelle de la Trinité: L’art dans les chapelles (2018)[34]
FOAM: Loading... (2018)
C/O Berlin: Back to the Future (2018)
Copenhagen Photo Festival: Sculptural Landscapes (2018)[35]
Denver Art Museum: New Territory (2018)[36]
FOAM: Back to the Future (2018)
Martin Asbæk Gallery: Adam Jeppesen (solo exhibition) (2017)[37]
Kunst Haus Wien: Visions of Nature (2017)
FOAM: Out of Camp (solo exhibition) (2017)[38]
Galerie van der Mieden: The Pond (solo exhibition) (2017)
C/O Berlin: Out of Camp (solo exhibition) (2016)[39]
Fotomuseum Antwerp: Mijn Vlakke Land (2015)
V1 Gallery: Hindsight (2014)
The National Museum of Photography: Flatlands Camp Project (solo exhibition) (2012)
Peter Lav Gallery: The Flatlands Camp Poject – Beyonder (solo exhibition) (2011)
Multimedia Art Museum: Arctic (2011)
Galleri Image: On Sleepwalking (solo exhibition) (2009)
Peter Lav Gallery: Saimaa (solo exhibition) (2008)
Galleri Hornbæk: The Wake (solo exhibition) (2006)
Publications
Error, Object, Structure. Plethora Magazine, Frederiksberg, 2019. ISBN 978-87-998687-2-8[40]
In Tremolo. Plethora Magazine, Frederiksberg, 2017. ISBN 978-87-998687-1-1[41]
Flatlands. Plethora Magazine, Frederiksberg, 2015. ISBN 978-87-998687-0-4[42]
Wake. Steidl, Göttingen, Tyskland, 2008. ISBN 978-3865216458 Search this book on 
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References
- ↑ "Adam Jeppesen - The Pond". Photography Now. photo-index UG. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ↑ "Black Box Projects - Adam Jeppesen". Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Adam Jeppesen | Past exhibition at Foam". www.foam.org. Retrieved 2021-12-10.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Homer, Nicola. "Adam Jeppesen – interview: 'I embrace imperfection'". www.studiointernational.com. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
- ↑ "The Loneliness of the Traveller". Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "487 days Flatlands Camp Project by Adam Jeppesen". Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Delson, Susan (8 June 2018). "In Denver, Landscapes Soaked, Digitized and Irradiated". Wall Street Journal. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "True Colours". 5 September 2013. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Adam Jeppesen's Journey from the North Pole to South Pole". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "New Territory Artists To Speak at Anderman Photography Lecture Series". Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Ugens kunstner: Adam Jeppesen". 22 February 2012. Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "10 Nordic Artists to Watch at Chart". 18 August 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Adam Jeppesen's 487-day journey from the north pole to Antarctica – in pictures". The Guardian. 22 September 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Untitled · 1260· P2 from Flatlands Camp Project". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Error, Object, Structure". Archived from the original on 2020-12-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "A2 Photography Exam: Variation and Similarity". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Exhibition "Vaca Muerta" by Adam Jeppesen". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 23.0 23.1 "From Pole to Pole: Imperfect Solitude". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Adam Jeppesen for Brandts | Ny Carlsbergfondet". ny-carlsbergfondet.dk. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Surface modified images". Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "På grænsen til det uendelige". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "From Bin Bags to Utopia - The Best of Photo London 2019 in Pictures". The Guardian. 14 May 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "October Highlights". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – Of Individuals and Places: Photographs from the Lazare Collection". Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Sublime Landscapes". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "C/O Berlin: Adam Jeppesen - Out of Camp". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Error, object, structure : Adam Jeppesen. Koren, Leonard, Aurelie Sorriaux, David Stjernholm, Jane Rowley, Peter Steffensen. [Kbh.]: Plethora Magazine. 2019. ISBN 978-87-998687-2-8. OCLC 1181998376. Search this book on
- ↑ No 250. Plethora Magazine. ISBN 978-87-998687-1-1. OCLC 1099799709. Search this book on
- ↑ Jeppesen, Adam, f. 1978. (2015). Flatlands (1. ed.). [Kbh.]: Plethora. ISBN 978-87-998687-0-4. OCLC 941877732.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Jeppesen, Adam. (2008). Wake (1st ed.). Göttingen, Germany: Steidldangin. ISBN 978-3-86521-645-8. OCLC 183263635. Search this book on
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