About
Jasper van den Ende is a photographer and visual artist from the Netherlands. He works across still and moving images to research and contemplate the ecological and cultural dimensions of light and darkness.
Departing from ecology and philosophy, Van den Ende works to draw together a wide range of concepts to further investigate the broader themes and implications of light, light pollution, (in)visibility and opacity in relation to flora and fauna, human societies, and more. In doing so, he regularly leans on phenomenology and sensuous observation, thus instrumentalising his and others’ lived experience as a valuable point of departure for his artistic research.
Often centring on the interaction between (the absence of) artificial light and its natural environments, his work tends to balance between aesthetic expression and essayistic discourse. This manifests itself in an artistic practice that equally prioritises experimentation in its visual language, techniques and processes, and the eco-political or eco-social discourses that it constructs or conveys.
