Jochen LempertPAARE / PAIRS

Jochen Lempert’s photographs start from an encounter: with plants and animals, with real or artificial representations in urban or rural environments, with museum windows, with scientific books, etc.The resulting images display a closeness that testifies to the artist’s ease with his subjects. Rather than applying his scientific knowledge to what he photographs, he visually invites meaning through the act of seeing. Pairs is presented in an exhibition of Lempert’s work at the Kunsthalle Portikus in Frankfurt am Main, curated by Yasmil Raymond and Deborah Müller. The juxtapositions in this series can be two photographs of the same subject, a pair of animals or visually evocative correspondences.