Benno Je'Ni

Artist Statement: Benno je'NI
Mutability of form as canvas
Beauty is the authority and thus our philosophy. It is the ultimate statement and it covers all vocabulary. Beauty is our area of expertise and skill to get to that place of authority. Beauty is our science.
We study beauty as an anthropological science and live by its principles. Passion requires us to be responsible for what we express and how we project creation. Our contribution is a self-realized, self-sustaining vehicle and container. Everything has its place in performance.What is being created is on its destiny.We merely interpret what creation has in mind.
Because we claim beauty, it is ours to express with.
We connect the spheres of art, narrative, philosophy, music, performance, movement and style in order to allow them to serve one another.
Who we are
Benno je'NI is a creative partnership with Benno as concept creator, director and executor of photography and design and je'NI as concept creator, co-director of photography and design, image subject and editor.
Benno je'NI investigate instinctual facets of emotional behaviors.Through impromptu psychological instigations, Benno provokes je'NI into responses which Benno captures.This mysterious process betwe...

Curriculum Vitae - Jennifer Klandt (je’NI)
Education
Dance - Modern, Ballet & Jazz, NY, 1982-2002 Classical Piano & MusicTheory,NY,1989-1996 Classical, Jazz & Modern Singing, NY, 1993 - present BA Inter-Arts & International Relations, Georgetown University,Washington DC, 1996-2000 Voice Over, NY, 2004-2008
International Center of Photography, NY, 2007-2009 Creative Writing with Peter Selgin, New York University, NY, 2009
Award
Chianciano Museum of Art’s International Award for Digital Art, Second Prize Winner, Italy, 2010
Exhibitions
The Percipient Eye, Solo Pop-Up Exhibit curated by Saisha Grayson-Knoth, the current Assistant Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum,The Gallery at Mansion, Chelsea, NY, 2008
International Digital and Photographic Art Exhibition, Chianciano Museum of Art, Italy, 2010 You Porn Categories of Sex, Group Exhibition, Blissland Art Space, Berlin, 2011 Group Exhibition, Gagliardi Gallery, Kings Road, London, 2011 Permanent Collection, LUXE IMMO Gallery, Monaco, 2012
showSTUDIO’s Visions Couture installation, starring Daphne Guinness and directed by Nick Knight, Printemps Department Store, Paris, 2012
BACKLASH / On Women’s Basic Right & Freedoms, Group Exh...