Solo exhibition Jacquie Maria Wessels 'Exploring the Fields' | Galerie Fontana

Galerie Fontana is pleased to present Jacquie Maria Wessels’ first solo exhibition at the gallery, titled ‘Exploring the Fields’. The premiere of Dubious Appeal will be shown alongside previous work of the artist from her series, Garage Stills, Fringe Nature, and Memory Master. Wessels’ analogue photography is as poetic as it is sinister.

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Solo exhibition Jacquie Maria Wessels 'Exploring the Fields' | Galerie Fontana

Dates

Wed 25 Dec13:00 - 18:00

Thu 26 Dec13:00 - 18:00

Fri 27 Dec13:00 - 18:00

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Location

Galerie Fontana

Lauriergracht 142

1016 RT Amsterdam

Exploring the Fields

Garage Stills is striking in its surprising use of colour. During the artist’s visit to various garages, from Amsterdam to Sri Lanka, she explores these wondrous spaces by creating still lifes on the spot with the intriguing and personal objects she finds there. This series can be seen as the precursor to Fringe Nature, in which Jacquie Maria Wessels goes beyond the auto repair garages and turns her lens to the traces of nature in the immediate vicinity. In Dubious Appeal, Wessels further examines the tension between nature and industry. Memory Master has a similar visual language to Fringe Nature and Dubious Appeal in the painterly imagery and depictions of nature. However, the works on waving silk represent the memory of places you may have been. The almost mysterious impressionist images are reminiscent of vanishing memories.

About the artist

Jacquie Maria Wessels' work is exhibited worldwide and is included in the collection of several museums, including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (NL), Musée de la Photographie Charleroi (BE), Huis Marseille - Museum for Photography Amsterdam (NL), Vincent van GoghHuis (NL) and the Surinamese Museum in Paramaribo (SR). In 2023, Ludion (BE) published the photobook Garage Stills & Fringe Nature.