Jeannette Meijer
March 11 and 12, 2023, Jeannette Meijer exhibited at the gallery.
Jeannette Meijer’s visual work can be described as abstract-realist. Realistic because it is photography, abstract because the images are not immediately recognizable.
She finds her inspiration in natural and “slow” processes such as accretion, impermanence, decay and neglect. In a world often about perfection, Jeannette goes in search of imperfection. Because for her, therein lies the beauty. And the necessity, because life is not perfect and “things change over time.
The work fits well with the Japanese philosophy of life Wabi-Sabi. In it, among other things, is about bringing peace back into your life through the acceptance of impermanence and imperfection.
Microscapes could be called her photographs, vistas on the flat surface, atmospheric fields of flakes and blisters, walls that give space. You may have to have the eyes of a romantic or an artist to get lost in those spaces, but if you manage to look from that perspective, a rusty view is never the same as it was.
