Per Bak Jensen was the first photographer educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. His photographic oeuvre is characterised by an interest for the unseen parts of our reality – details as well as landscapes which are hardly ever objects of our gaze. In Bak Jensen's photographs we are confronted with the poetics of the unseen – a being of places. “I try, in my pictures, to capture the riddles of places. My pictures do not pose questions or give answers, they form the entrance to the secret of places”, he says in “The Being of Places” (1993). Bak Jensen’s works are presented in numerous collections and museums including MoMA, New York; ICP, New York; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk; ARoS, Aaarhus; Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen.

“The block establishes gravity and a contrast effect. As it lies there, it is difficult to ignore, since it represents a halting and immobility, but at the same time it places the other lines in the image in relief. The stone accentuates the plain’s wide horizon, lightness and airiness. If you look long enough at the block and the plain, alternating back and forth, the block actually begins to float. This is the image’s surreal moment [...] Transit image and concentration image all at the same time.” Mikkel Bogh: “Per Bak Jensen: The Unseen Picture”. 2006. P. 71–73.

Provenance: A present from the artist to his artist friend Øivind Nygård.