Servitudes

Jesper Just

With Dree Hemingway. Cinematography by Kasper Tuxen.

In his film work, Jesper Just links images of an exceptional quality to sound and music. The enigma disrupts the narrative, creating a tension that lets the poetry of the space emerge. Jesper Just does not provide a solution in his narrative, leaving the observer with his own questions and emotions.
 
In the lower gallery at Palais de Tokyo, Jesper Just will create an audiovisual installation and a vast spatial intervention, which will transform the existing space and the visitor’s journey.

The film’s setting, the equally iconic and controversial One World Trade Center, becomes, as in much of  Jesper Just’s  work,  a character itself,  serving here as a phantom limb, indicative of absence and loss, but likewise a testament to resilience. Its presence, somehow inorganic, appears like a prosthetic limb within an altered skyline.

The films follow two characters: a young girl who doesn't appear as an individual but embodies the ideals of youth and femininity conveyed by contemporary society, and a disabled child. Within the videos the characters mirror, oppose and interact, to explore themes of ableism, agency as well as the boundaries of body and selfhood.