Jessica Wolfelsperger was born in 1979 in Basel. She studied photography at BTK University of Art & Design in Berlin. During and after her studies, she assisted various photographers and artists in Berlin, New York and Copenhagen. Beside that, she attended courses at the Ostkreuzschool for Photography and completed a certificate as a curator at the University of the Arts (UDK) in Berlin. In 2015, she won the first prize of the vfg for emerging talent as young photographer in Switzerland and in 2017 the Swiss Photo Award in the category Fine Art. In the same year she was invited for the Artist Residency of the Verzasca Foto Festival. 2018 she was selected to participate in the Mentoring Program Parallel Photo Platform funded by the European Community, conceived by Procur.arte. Jessica Wolfelsperger’s work has been exhibited internationally.
About ‘Lonely Planet’ – words by Jessica Wolfelsperger:
The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction
the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.
Allen Ginsberg
More or less each of us knows times when we feel lonely. It may have simple reasons, like being away from home or having problems with friends, family or work. We can feel emotionally cut off from our environment. Or we have the feeling, we can’t share what is happening within us. This work visualizes this sense of isolation. I’m concerned about the loneliness of modern mankind, the single society, the anonymity of the big city and the rivalry in capitalism. Loneliness exists and is not a small problem. It is a malnutrition of our soul.
