ASTRID KRUSE JENSEN

Words by Caroline Ryan 

Curated by Emil Nissen

The Window to the Unknown, 2021

Archival fiber print

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

We All Belong To Nature, 2021

Archival fiber print

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

The Forest of Greif, 2021

Archival fiber print

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

Astrid Kruse Jensen’s photographic work captures the transience of a moment in time. Across her dense and ethereal compositions, light and dark meet in a study of memory. Often drawing a connection between the process of recall and the chemical process of her photographic medium, Astrid captures fleeting fragments of lived experience.

What is it that draws you to the idea of memory in your work?

Memory is a vibrant form that never ends. The notion of memory, the physical landscape and the photographic material are closely connected and cannot be sepa-
rated in my work. My photographs contradict the notion of the photograph as a moment fixed in time. In my works the motifs, the material and the notion of memory become one and form part of a larger narrative about states of being and memory. 

Could you describe the relationship be-tween the fleeting and the photographic?

The visible chemical traces make the photographs appear processual as if they are simultaneously being developed and fading out. In this vacuum, I question the concept of memory as a state of awareness, a form of poetic displacement of reality – a world floating.

Portrait Photgraphy by Lizette Mikkelsen