Astrid Kruse Jensen is one of the rising international stars among the contemporary Danish art photographers. Her photographs are conceived in the cracks between the real and the unreal – or sometimes even in surreal, dreamlike images. Kruse Jensen’s use of the photographic medium and it’s processes evokes intriguing multi-layered scenes that give us a glimpse into this landscape between memories and facts – dream and reality.

The series “Hypernatural” depicts night scenes of outdoor swimming pools on Iceland. The photographs were made with a long exposure time giving the image a high saturation of colour and a distinct expressiveness, only visible in the artwork – not in real life – thus creating an alternative narrative. Her series “Construction of Memories” takes it a step further towards the unreal with dreamlike features.

“Astrid Kruse Jensen's creations are the work of a truly convincing auteur with her own personal style, which she successfully redefines in each new series [...] Her art also represents an incredibly authoritative work from a new generation of Danish photography [...] Astrid Kruse Jensen creates dreamlike spaces between reality and imagination, the real world and fantasy.” Reference: Lars Schwander, Mads Damsbo and Alison Nordström: “Selected Works by Astrid Kruse Jensen”. 2006. P. 6–7, 11. Ill. p. 39.

Kruse Jensen’s works have been exhibited at numerous international venues and are now in the collection of e.g. The George Eastman House, Rochester, USA; ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark and The National Museum for Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Reference: Lars Schwander, Mads Damsbo and Alison Nordström: “Selected Works by Astrid Kruse Jensen”. 2006. P. 6–7, 11. Ill. p. 39.

Provenance: Galleri Hornbæk.