No Things
Overrun branches, a piece of string, pebbles, shards of glass from a smashed bus stop shed, a dead and dried out seagull, used baking paper and a burnt beer can from Amager Common – seemingly worthless materials that have been selected precisely because they no longer fit into existing chains of value. Through the staging of the materials in photographic tableaus, they are given a new existence and meaning of their own. Things are grasped in their transformations from something to something else. In her aesthetic studies, Jeanette Land Schou re-animates found objects and natural materials. Through lighting and colouring, wonderful and complex spaces and universes are created, where the overlooked and wasted get a voice and form new stories. The photographs in the exhibition are a series of free associations that are based on an inner unrest and point to the border between horror, concern and aesthetic fascination.