NEAVE X JENS by Neave Bozorgi & Jens Wortmann
By (author): Neave Bozorgi & Jens Wortmann
Title: NEAVE X JENS
Subtitle: Interplay. Synthesis. Echo
Blurb/Shorttext:
Art is an encounter – between gaze and image, reality and abstraction, two artists who approach the visual world in their own unique ways. NEAVE X JENS brings together photography and collage – two artistic expressions that intersect and merge within this book.
Neave Bozorgi, an Iranian-American photographer based in Los Angeles, works with light the way a painter works with color. His photography is pure, minimal, and deeply intimate – capturing moments where time seems to stand still. His aesthetic is not about staging but about a meditative pursuit of beauty in simplicity. For Neave, the camera is not just a tool for documentation but a medium for preserving moods and distilling the essence of a fleeting instant.
Jens Wortmann, a German collage artist, takes this approach a step further, using photography as the foundation for his analog paper collages. He dissects, combines, and layers images to create new narratives from existing visuals. His collages deconstruct reality and reassemble it – fragmented, condensed, and often unexpectedly reimagined.
This book unites their worlds. The first section presents a selection of Neave’s photographs, while the second showcases Jens’ collages from the past decade. At the heart of the book lies their collaborative series, Neave Bozorgi X Jens Wortmann (2023) – a fusion where photography becomes the canvas, and collage transforms it into something entirely new. Interplay, synthesis, and echo shape this creative process – images merge, overlap, and engage in a dynamic dialogue.
The book is reversible – two covers, no back. It flips halfway through, offering a shift in perspective. A visual echo.
NEAVE X JENS is an exploration of the boundaries and possibilities of two art forms – a dialogue between light and paper, reduction and composition, reality and reinvention.
Enjoy the discovery!
ISBN: 978-87-7620-510-2
Book language: English
Publishing house: Snap Collective
Website: www.snap-collective.com
Editorial Assistant: Anna Romanovici
Designer: Elena Bidnenko
Published on: in production
Category: Art
Price (€): 129
Keywords: contemporary art, fine art, photography, analog, photography, paper collage, collage art, fashion, portrait, black and white, woman, body aesthetics, beauty, cubism, surrealism