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Photographer Astrid Kruse Jensen (b.1975) explores the passage between reality and imagination in her ambient works. In the series of photographs entitled ‘Imaginary Realities’ Astrid Kruse Jensen returns to her past and reconstructs moments from her memory. Her photographs here have a strong narrative mode with allusions to cinematic expression. The series Hypernatural portrays empty outdoor Icelandic swimming facilities. The darkness in the photographs softens the transition from the original natural setting to the manmade facilities. As reconstructed moments of remembrance the realism of Astrid Kruse Jensens works connects with the sphere of imagination. It is pictures of everyday life, but then again: everyday life in the form of intense, precisely chosen parts of the bigger story of life and love, which drives reality into a poetic mode. The works portrays the moment when our individual life open up and becomes a part of the world around us - the moment where we step out of ourselves and reflection begins. Astrid Kruse Jensen has studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and at Glasgow School of Art in Scotland.
2006 27.10 - 02.12 Astrid Kruse Jensen, Parallel Landscapes
2005 21.05 - 25.06 Astrid Kruse Jensen, Mette Vangsgaard, Imaginary Realities
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Astrid Kruse Jensen, Looking Out, 2006. C-print