摄影师 PhotogRapher
Mette Juul是丹麦的获奖摄影师，曾在英国留学。她有很强的电影基础，并在丹麦、德国、中国和英国等地举办过展览。Juul的作品基于图像收集，以及个人摄影集中照片之间的潜在联系。Mette Juul几乎每天都收集照片，作品也就从她的个人影集中诞生。完成的作品通常带有幻想的元素，这些图像带领观众经历一个又熟悉又陌生的旅行。Mette Juul去过照片中每一个地方，并仔细观察，拍摄下她所见到所经历的世界。这项艺术并不仅仅是客观的观察、或简单的记录，而是一个带有艺术气质的，对现实感悟诠释的表达。现实与幻想中模糊不清的界限正是Mette Juul的摄影作品。Juul已经出版了两部书。
Mette Juul的系列展览名为“影子与回音”，名称借鉴了柏拉图的“柏拉图洞穴的寓言”这一对比我们怎样接受现实的暗喻。寓言说明我们所感受到的永远是不完美的真相和现实。“柏拉图洞穴的寓言”是一个让我们反思生命与理解的复杂模型。 Juul拍摄的照片全部来自亲身经历，通过对照片的搜索，我们得出了一个对世界的理解，这样的理解并不急于得出结论而是通过照片的旅行，观察、记录并发问。宏大图片和平庸照片的组合也表达了世界既普通又不寻常。
The potential narrative that lies within a personal archive of photogRaphs. Mette Juul collect images on an almost daily basic and from the personal archive the work is formed. The finished work often contains the element of fiction and the images take you on a journey, to both foreign and familiar places. Mette Juul has visited all these places and made observations, photograph her encounters and experiences in the world. The work is not about neutral observations or simple documentation but about how an artistic temperament expresses a perception and interpretation of reality.The open boundary between reality and fiction is where Mette Juul’s photography lies. Juul has two books published.
Mette Juul's series is titled "Shadows and Echoes" and refer to Plato’s "The allegory of the cave" that represents an extended metaphor that is to contrast the way in which we perceive and believe in what is reality. The thesis behind his allegory is the basic tenets that all we perceive are imperfect “reflections” of the ultimate Forms, which subsequently represent truth and reality. The “Allegory of the Cave” represents a complex model as to which we are to travel through our lives and understanding. Juul's images all arrive from life experience and through images search for an understanding of the world. Not an understanding that arrives to a conclusion, but a travel that is looking, recording and ask questions. The combination of images that mixes the grandiose and the mundane is a way of experience the world as both the ordinary and the extraordinary.
