Jessica Backhaus’s Plein Soleil

Plein Soleil, a solo exhibition by Jessica Backhaus

Robert Morat Galerie

Berlin, Germany

On view from May 23 to July 19, 2025.

Colour and form, light and shadow – in the abstract compositions of the series ‘Plein Soleil’, Jessica Backhaus reduces her images to the four basic elements of photography. As in her previous project ‘Cut Outs’, the artist arranges coloured papers of different textures and grammages in intense, summery sunlight. Individual sheets are folded or curved, creating hard shadows and vibrant colour fields that the camera forms into poetic arrangements. In her work, Backhaus explores the photographic possibilities of abstraction, blurring the lines between documentary photography and intuitive, lyrical colour figuration.

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