Jessica Wolfelsperger

Do you know who I am is an ongoing project that focuses on the homogenisation in Western culture, namely in Instagram/social media, and its immediacy, brought about by constantly and instantly taking smartphone pictures.

Working with photography, video, internet generated texts and performance, Jessica Wolfelsperger examines the potential of social media to achieve ultimate freedom, allowing everyone to create content and take part in the flow of images.

„What starts out as triumph soon becomes manipulated into a cacophony of futility, leaving only a sense of dread and the unlikelihood of a new order.“ ― Text Generator

Selfie project here: www.instagram.com/jessicawolfelsperger/

Jessica Wolfelsperger (Basel, 1979) studied photography at BTK University of Art & Design in Berlin. During and after her studies, she has assisted various photographers and artists in Berlin, New York and Copenhagen. She also attended courses at the Ostkreuzschool for Photography and completed a certificate as a curator at the University of the Arts (UDK), Berlin. In 2015, she was the winner of the VFG Young Talent Award for Photography and in 2017 she won the Swiss Photo Award, category Fine Art.  In the same year, she was invited for the Artist Residency of the Verzasca Foto Festival. Jessica Wolfelsperger’s work has been exhibited internationally.