JESSICA BACKHAUS
Jesus and the Cherries
Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury
Photographed between 2001 and 2005 in Netno, a small village in Western Pomerania, Poland, Backhaus has made an affectionate portrait of the domestic interiors of this tiny rural community. Backhaus photographs neat, brightly-colored living rooms and the remnants of meals partaken to provide an intimate look at this modest provincial lifestyle. Dealing with time and change, the photographs are a documentation of both the political and social upheaval that occurred after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but changes have come slowly to this part of Europe where living rooms are dominated by religious paintings, hand crocheted afghans and doilies as well as ancestral portraits.
Jessica Backhaus. Born in Cuxhaven, Germany, lives in New York. Her work has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States. A fully illustrated monograph published by Kehrer Verlag, accompanies the exhibition.
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