Jesper Just | Online presentation

 

Galleri Nicolai Wallner is pleased to present an online presentation featuring new works by Jesper Just.

Much of Jesper Just’s (b. 1974, Denmark) practice is concentrated on the question of representation—how do we create imagery and inversely, how does this imagery then contributes to our ideas around bodies, expectations, identities, social conventions and further more contributes to our sense of self.

Working primarily with the mediums of film, photography and installation, Jesper Just incorporates movement, performance, sound and beautifully subtle visual symbolism, all of which comes together to create a deeply interactive and immersive environment.

Jesper Just is currently nominated for the prestigious ARS FENNICA Art Award which will be announced later this Spring.

With the Interpassivities and Corporealités series, five classically trained dancers have electrical wires attached to their limbs. Their limbs contract and move not through the use of their bodies but through timed electro-stimulations revealed to be directed by an accompanying musical score. The wires both restrict but also enhance the body, taking it a step away from something purely corporeal—or rather, a step away from what we consider to be “the body” in an ideal sense.

 

 

Jesper Just
Interpassivities #1 (2021)
Pigment print on Hahnemühle paper
65 x 113 cm | 25.7 x 44.5 in
Edition of 3 (+2 AP)

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Jesper Just
Corporealités #4 (2021)
Pigment print on Hahnemühle paper
65 x 90 cm | 25.7 x 35.5 in
Edition of 3 (+2 AP)

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These ideas are also often echoed in the installation of works, with fragmented LED screens and cement blocks placed strategically within the space, crating world which feels both built and destroyed and the same time. This added physical interaction—or rather disruption—alters the way you navigate the space and in so doing your perspective.

 

 

Jesper Just
Corporealités – 2 (2020)
LED panels, multi channel video, sound, steel and cement
Dimensions variable
Edition of 1 (+1 AP)

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In other works, the idea of plant life and artificial life has intertwined itself within these explorations, notably in the SEMINARIUM series. Parts of a body are shown on film, moving, slowly pulsating in an electrifying violet light that emanates from a section of LED screen. The screen itself has been reworked to function as part of a hydroponic cultivation system which enables a plant placed in front of it to grow in water, fed only by the light emitting from the film playing on the LED screen. This intersection between technology, nature, intention and modification produces a visceral feeling as the installation grows and evolves over time.

 

 

 

Jesper Just
SEMINARIUM #2 (2021)
6 LED panels, aluminium structure, aluminium podium, glass vase, brightsign media player, mono speaker, amp, cultivated geranium or yellow archangel
250 x 160 x 50 cm | 98.5 x 63 x 20 in
Edition of 2 (+1 AP)

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Photo credit: Corporealités courtesy of Galerie Perrotin, New York
Photo credit: Seminarium courtesy of Gammel Holtegaard, David Stjernholm
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