Jette Held
Bode – Harz, 2021
Photogram, baryt hand print
60 × 50 cm
Unique work, with certificate
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The photograms of Jette Held show fine waves of light and shadow. For the Kunstverein Braunschweig Held has provided a black-and-white hand print on baryta paper, which was which was taken in her homeland in the Harz Mountains, where the Bode rises as a tributary of the Saale. Bode - Harz is a photogram taken at night in the water of the river at moonlight with immediate, subsequent Development on site in the forest was taken.The closeness to her portrayed environment is as important to Jette Held as important as the proximity of her body to the water, where her works are created. An elementary component in the analog photographic development process is water Water is both object and subject of her works. As soon as water, light and light-sensitive paper meet, views of nature light and light-sensitive paper meet, views of nature emerge, which otherwise would hardly be recognizable