System 8, from the series Kosmos, 2011 © Joris Jansen, courtesy of the Foam Collection

Joris Jansen, 2011

System 8, from the series Kosmos

Created by Joris Jansen in 2011. Using c-print as the medium, the artwork is displayed at 99 x 129 cm.

The artwork explores genres such as constructed image.

At first glance System 8 is reminiscent of outer space; it is a familiar picture  of the infinite, of the unknown and total chaos that surrounds us. The photographs in the series Kosmos by Joris Jansen refuse the reading of the medium of photography as a method to make things visible. His photographs rather make things invisible. Jansen rephotographs the surface of an analogue photograph. By doing so he creates an imaginary universe full of milky ways and swarming planets. This new universe is far removed from the initial photograph and thus only the materiality of the analogue photograph seems to be relevant for the creation of a completely new universe. 

© Joris Jansen, courtesy of the Foam Collection

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System 8, from the series Kosmos