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Artists›Jesper JUST

Jesper JUST

1974

WA-00009022

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WikidataQ3124537

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NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%✓
Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 92%✓
LocationGallery Perrotin· 80%

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Perrotinhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/jesper-just
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Theholehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/jesper-just
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
James-Cohanhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/jesper-just
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%

About

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Jesper Just creates large-scale photograph-based installations that examine narrative fragmentation and the performative nature of identity. Working across photography, video, and sculptural elements, he constructs immersive environments where temporal and spatial ruptures generate psychological ambiguity. His practice interrogates how images and objects accumulate meaning through staging and display, often introducing architectural intervention into gallery space. Based in New York, Just has developed a distinctive approach to photography that treats the medium as a site for staged encounter rather than documentary capture.

Source: Perrotin · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tate

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Artworks (2)

It Will All End in Tears, A Little Fall of Rain And Dreaming Is Nursed In Darkness It Will All End In Tears

2006 · Anamorphic 35mm film transferred to video (color, sound)

20 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Bliss and Heaven

2004 · Film, 16 mm, shown as video, projection, colour and sound

duration: 8min 32sec overall display dimensions variable

Tate

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MoMA
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Tate
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Bliss and Heaven
2004 · Tate · 1 prov
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tate Perrotin Gallery

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