JESSICA BACKHAUS

“ABSTRAKTE DIMENSIONEN”

Forgotten everyday objects, a sheet of paper, a paperweight bathing in sunlight – such things can become quiet moments of intimacy – moments that a trained eye can translate into images. With passion, empathy, and a deep understanding of light, Jessica Backhaus composes colours and forms in such a way that even the most inconspicuous objects acquire a life of their own and an emotional depth.

In the workshop, she will speak about the joys of experimentation, the making of a photobook, and the careful preparation of an exhibition. Part of the workshop will also be dedicated to presenting what inspires Backhaus. Participants will be in lively exchange with Jessica Backhaus, will have the opportunity to discuss their own projects with her, and, through a practical exercise, to explore their own creativity, allowing intuition to guide them into a spirit of experimentation. Depending on their preferences and individual artistic practice, participants will collage, photograph, draw, paint, or work in other ways, and try their hand at creating visual poems.

Form, light, and colour describe Jessica Backhaus’s visual narrative in a concise and entirely natural way. It is precisely through these elements that participants will be encouraged over the two days of the workshop to reconsider the potential inherent in simple things.

Jessica Backhaus, whose exhibition Shadows Might Dance is on view at the FFF (January 31–April 26, 2026), has in recent years repeatedly arrived at remarkable visual solutions with her artistically narrative photographs, both in single images and in sequences. Her work to date represents a fascinating interplay between the depiction of reality and enigmatic abstraction.