Jan Paul Evers

Jan Paul Evers' photographic imagery is engaging and perplexing. The granular structure of its analog formation points to an outdated reference system that has long been in the process of dissolution. Nevertheless, the artist charmingly and consistently insists on the decisive moment which, unlike Cartier-Bresson, does not manifest itself in a jump over a puddle. On the contrary, in these times of standardized digital imaging processes, Jan Paul Evers celebrates his struggle in the darkroom in an alchemical and elementary manner for the perfect print. All of this would be a nostalgic transfiguration of a media-mourned past if Evers did not counter this with an eclectic, sometimes erratic mix of abstract and representative motifs.