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Six Degrees of Freedom<br />

Six Degrees of Freedom<br />

“Jessica Backhaus analisa através da sua<br />

série fotográfica Six Degrees of Freedom,<br />

questões universais da existência humana.<br />

Com base na sua própria história de vida e<br />

tomando bem presente a importância de<br />

conhecer as raízes de sua própria<br />

existência, a artista questiona em que<br />

medida é possível re-elaborar as nossas<br />

raízes obtidas à partida. De início de uma<br />

forma inconsciente, mas depois cada vez<br />

mais de um modo mais propositado, a<br />

fotógrafa, que cresceu numa família de<br />

artistas,num determinado momento da sua<br />

vida parte em busca das suas próprias<br />

raízes. Nesta viagem a artista visita os locais<br />

de infância e juventude, preenchendo<br />

lacunas nas suas memórias. Com estes<br />

trabalhos, ela capta simbolicamente a<br />

essência tanto desta pesquisa como das<br />

fases de vida por que passou . O<br />

espectador recebe as imagens abertas,<br />

directas e destituídas de equilíbrio. As<br />

fotografias possuem potencial metafórico<br />

em contraposição à fotografia documental<br />

tradicional, alternando o realismo com a<br />

abstração.”<br />

In Six Degrees of Freedom<br />

Autores: Caroline von Courten, Lars Mextorf, Jessica<br />

Backhaus<br />

Artista: Jessica Backhaus,<br />

Editor: Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin<br />

Hardcover: 22,8 x 27,4cm,112 páginas 64, ilust. cor e<br />

p/b, English/German 2015<br />

"Jessica Backhaus examines, with her latest<br />

photographic series Six Degrees of Freedom,<br />

universal questions of human existence. Based<br />

on her own life story she inquires after the<br />

significance of knowing the roots of one's own<br />

existence and to what extent it is possible to reelaborate<br />

these – usually prescribed– roots.<br />

Initially unconsciously, then ever more<br />

purposefully the photographer, who grew up<br />

in a family of artists, at some point in her life set<br />

off in search of her own background. On this<br />

journey she visits places of her childhood and<br />

youth and fills the gaps in her memories. With<br />

her photographs she symbolically captures the<br />

essence of this search and of her life stages.<br />

Simultaneously, she pulls off the balancing act<br />

of keeping the images open for the beholder.<br />

Her photographs possess metaphoric potential<br />

and work against the grain of a classic social<br />

documentary photography. They alternate<br />

between realism and abstraction.”<br />

In Six Degrees of Freedom<br />

Authors: Caroline von Courten, Lars Mextorf, Jessica<br />

Backhaus<br />

Artist: Jessica Backhaus,<br />

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin Hardcover:<br />

22,8 x 27,4cm, 112 pages, 64 color and b/w ills, English/<br />

German 2015

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