Jennifer Des is a Belgian artist. She has had a fascination with visual art from an early age and began to present a variation of her works in the early 2000s.
Her works stand out with a subtle mix of sincerity and poetry and she offers an uncompromising look at our current culture revolving around appearances.
Her first photography series is a clever fusion between a docu- mentary and a diary. The portraits are a reflection of our society with depictions of drunken youths, their...
Jennifer Des is a Belgian artist. She has had a fascination with visual art from an early age and began to present a variation of her works in the early 2000s.
Her works stand out with a subtle mix of sincerity and poetry and she offers an uncompromising look at our current culture revolving around appearances.
Her first photography series is a clever fusion between a docu- mentary and a diary. The portraits are a reflection of our society with depictions of drunken youths, their anxieties and tempta- tions, behind which hides a solitude without mercy. It is this particular theme that echoed throughout her first exhibitions in different galleries between 2003 until 2006.
In 2007 Jennifer enleve le DES radicalized her work on appear- ance and developed a series of images around the theme of cosmetic surgery. She received the permission to access the Emergency Room during procedures Emergency Room during procedures. It was during that exhibition at the Pierre Berge Foundation in 2007 that the first surgical images were shown to the public.
In 2009, Jennifer Des received access to many other catego- ries of surgery and eventually was even allowed to attend an open-heart surgery. This experience enabled her to expand her interest on the human body even further. She is particularly in- terested in the parallel relationship between the perfect beauty of our anatomy and our feelings towards our physical form.
This thematic has been exhibited in different galleries including in New York’s Soho district and Berlin. For some years, she was also working around the theme of the “acceptance of death”.
Today, Jennifer Des is presenting her new theme: EYE-D PRO- JECT where she successfully links humanity in a background of eternity. This quest for self-acceptance is intrinsically linked to her upcoming project on the “acceptance of death”. EYE-D PROJECT translates the idea of a look of the eye that returns us to our own existence.
In conclusion, the artist demonstrates the living appearance of the eye yet the aesthetics of death is highlighted in the eye be- ing the subject on a cosmic backdrop that allows it to assert its place in the realm of immortality. Exceeding oblivion, the spirit presents a hint of relief for the mind that will not succumb to the nothingness of death but instead, will leave a mark on eternity.
