About The Artist

Jacob Gils´ photographs, analogue and digital in origin, embody a strong awareness of perfect technique and composition. Initiated by a wish to break away from controlled predefined photography the artist employed a distinct technique by transferring Polaroids onto Watercolor paper and a conscious dividing of the photo into multiple fields. The new take on photography let to the unique expression seen in Limit To Your Love. The blend of motive and technique creates an expression that is organic and sensuous to the eye. The layering of multiples in his other series Movement generates engaging interpretations of iconic structures. Fragmented, draped and distorted they demand the onlooker to not only look at them, but also to get closer and pay attention to the details as they never reveal themselves from a distance. A first glance the multi-point visual puzzles appear unfocused and shaken, but are in fact many different very in-focus photographs of the same thing selected and carefully layered, so they in the end give us the illusion of being on the go – in movement. The layering often also creates a translucent second shape and results in a photographic style that resembles impressionistic paintings, but at a closer inspection reveals the details of modern photography. The Dane confronts both Danish photography and in a broader sense Western photography and art. He questions his own artistic allegiance as well a that of the photographic genre and his art represents a social phenomenon that is at the very heart of contemporary art dialogue today. It balances on the edge of reality and dream, the abstract and the realistic. Awards Prix De La Photographie Paris (PX3) Third Prize in the Altered Images Competition Exhibitions Copenhagen Photo Festival, Solo Exhibition, 2015 Paris Photo LA, May 1-3, www.parisphoto.com MIA Milan 2015, April 11-13, www.miafair.it/milano/ Photo LA 2015, Jan 15-18, www.photola.com Fotofever Paris 2014, www.fotofeverartfair.com Art CPH 2014, www.artcopenhagen.dk Photo Shanghai 2014, www.photoshanghai.org Copenhagen Photo Festival, Group Exhibition, 2014. In the Gallery Copenhagen, Exhibition whit Naja Utzon, 2014 Art CPH 2013, www.artcopenhagen.dk Copenhagen Photo Festival, Solo Exhibition, 2013 In the Gallery Copenhagen, Solo Exhibition, 2013 Copenhagen Photo Festival, Solo Exhibition, 2012 In the Gallery Copenhagen, Solo Exhibition, 2012 Copenhagen Photo Festival, Group Exhibition, 2011 Photo LA 2015, Jan 15-18, www.photola.com MIA Milan 2015, April 11-13, www.miafair.it/milano/ Paris Photo LA, May 1-3, www.parisphoto.com Comming up: Art CPH 2015, www.artcopenhagen.dk Photo Shanghai 2015, www.photoshanghai.org Fotofever Paris 2015, www.fotofeverartfair.com Work in collections in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Spain, United Kingdom, New York, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, China & Australia.