Blind fantasy

 

 

Often the position of someone who looks at a photograph appears neutral, secondary to the subject itself, around which gravitates the meaning. Adam Jeppesen, however, seems almost to dismiss these parallel dimensions, dragging the viewer into his reflection, in expressly provided spaces. It almost seems to be there, sitting in the darkness beside the danish photographer busy sculpting the light in his movements, in its forms and in its moments. In doing so he creates hidden, intimate and quiet atmospheres. A widespread calm, placid and lonely even before restless. This cold comes from the inside? What is the real subject matter, darkness or light? The eye slides into this ambiguos distance, in balance between the adult desire to approach the source of heat that is the inspiration, and the more childish desire to take refuge in the blind fantasy and among its secret dreams, without straying too far. Amid all this there is always a landscape more or less defined or known. The need to belong is perhaps the only tangibile certainty.

 

 

Photo:

© Courtesy of Adam Jeppesen and Peter Lav Gallery

www.adamjeppesen.com

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