Legs and Water Glass 1 | Jenna Westra

Legs and Water Glass 1, 2019
Archival pigment print 
64 x 44 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP

Jenna Westra's photographs oscillate between careful construction and results of chance. She invites – mostly female – models to perform within the setting of a photograph. This performative aspect of her images creates a lightness, as the photographs don't impose themselves as definitive, but as negotiable views of a certain moment. This notion is reinforced when Westra presents her work in series, with images that are versions of a motif, differently cropped or chronologically arranged. The gaze transitions back and forth between what we know is front, back, or a specific part of the body, trying to define what belongs where. We know it is a human body part we are looking at. It might even be a female nude but with these works our attention might be shifted toward the composition and the mood of the image more than the nudity itself.