Artists

Joke Hansen

Press release

For “Wide Shots”, Joke Hansen continued to work on the existing series of works on paper ‘Between canyons and deserts’ (2021). She edited her own landscape photos or images found online and in magazines by adding painted “blocks”. This approach stems from Hansen's attempt to translate thinking exercises on paper into a physical space.

The once painterly visual blocks become large, fabric-covered objects that seem to float in and in front of a landscape.

For these backdrops, Joke Hansen uses dream images such as clichéd poster images or images from her own photo archive. The works ‘Sunset’ and ‘War & peace (at sea)’ refer directly to William Turner's works in which the contrast between utopia and destruction raises existential questions. A desire and an obstruction to that desire.