Biographie
In her photographic work, Jenny Bewer explores the boundaries between perception and reality. She questions the role that images and the way we see play in the formation of our own identity and where the interfaces between reality and fiction run.
Jenny Bewer, born in 1990, studied photography and media at the FH Bielefeld until 2016. In 2015 she won the French Bourse du Talent Award, in the context of which her images were exhibited in Paris, Lille and Arles. Artist residencies in France, Holland and the USA, as well as solo exhibitions at the Kommunale Galerie in Bielefeld and the Paleisje voor Volksvlijt in Amsterdam followed.
Since 2021 she lives as a permanent resident in the Hamburg Künstler innenhaus Vorwerk-Stift. She also works as a freelance photographer and is part of the ART OFF initiative of free art venues in Hamburg.
Présentation
For those who cared deals with the death of the photographer's father, who died of Covid 19 in May 2021. A time she remembers very little. His death divided the family, responsibilities were denied, facts were denied, and debates about vaccination took place at his funeral. It was not the death of a family member that was most problematic for Jenny Brewer, but the circumstances that led to it. No one would question the existence of cancer in front of a family member of the deceased. The divide within the family, representative of the gap that separates an entire society, constitutes the heart of this work and has long prevented the photographer from grieving. The reconstruction of events and the photographic re-evaluation are part of her mourning work.
Jenny Bewer works as a freelance photographer in Hamburg. In her work she is interested in the representation of emotional states and explores the subjectivity of her own perception.