Self-portrait (truck) 2012 A spontaneous trip to the small but perfectly formed gallery threw up a wonderful treat for us to enjoy. The photographs were stunning. It was an exhibition I had not planned to see, but am delighted to have done so. Jess' work speaks volumes to me without saying a word. Her engagement with her subjects gently invites her audience's participation without making any demands. It is powerful and provocative, threatening nothing except a preconception. It is challenging but throws down no gauntlets. It is as though she intended any consequences to be thoroughly conscious and wholly consensual. Art is the sex of the imagination George Jean Nathan Jess and Vanessa, 2013 The images are, I think, a wonderfully colourful depiction of gender, sexuality and love. The fluidity of each concept is given vast space to find both shape and form, and you can make of that what you will. I stoo...
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