What Still Remains is the title of a photo series made up of 65 works created since 2006 in various locations. After her first book, Jesus and the Cherries, about life in rural Poland, the German-American photographer Jessica Backhaus now pursues in this new cycle of photographs the question of why things that have been forgotten or left behind pop up in specific places and then seem to take on a life of their own. Backhaus has succeeded here in capturing motifs that exude an air both sublime and enigmatic. Our gaze is transfixed as we attempt to unravel the mystery of what makes these banal objects so intriguing.
In their composed beauty and expressiveness, Backhaus’ photographs are reminiscent of still life paintings. But unlike the classical paintings depicting what were often artificial tableaux of objects meant to evoke aspects of vanitas, Backhaus manages to make time and transience palpable by framing scenes she comes upon by accident.


Solo and Group Exhibitions 

2008-2009:

2009 – Solo Exhibition, „What Still Remains“ and „One day in November“, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria. 9th June until 2nd Aug. 2009

2009 - Group Exhibition, "The Beauty of the Mistake", Puppenhaus, Lisbon, Portugal.

sometime between April and June 09

2009 - Solo Exhibition, "What Still Remains" and „One day in November“ Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg, Germany. 13th March 09 until beginning of May 09

2009 - Solo Exhibition, „Jesus and the Cherries“, "Transphotographiques 2009", Lille, France. May-June 09

2008 - Photo Miami, Art & Photography Fair, Robert Morat Gallery, Miami, USA. 3.Dec. – 7.Dec. 08

2008 - Berliner Liste, Art & Photography Fair, Robert Morat Gallery, Berlin, Germany. 29.Oct. – 2.Nov. 08

2008 - Solo Exhibition, "What Still Remains" & "Jesus and the Cherries", Galerie im Schloß Borbeck, Essen, Germany.
 18.Oct. – 30. Nov. 08


Fall 2008: various book signings in Vienna, Paris and London:

Vienna: 7th of November 2008, Lia Wolf Bookstore
Paris: 14th of November 2008, Markus Schaden, Paris Photo
London: 22nd of November 2008, Claire de Rouen Books, London


Lecture and workshop:

17. +18. Nov. 2008: Lecture, presentation at Art Academy in Geneva

14. + 15. Feb. 2009: workshop at ICP, New York

Authors: Jean Dykstra
Artists: Jessica Backhaus

Hardcover
28 x 25 cm
96 pages
43 color ills.
English
available
ISBN 978-3-86828-019-7
48 Euro
2008