Overview

In his photographic work, Délio Jasse often interweaves found images with clues from past lives (found passport photos, family albums) to draw links between photography - in particular the concept of the 'latent image' - and memory. Jasse is known for experimenting with analogue photographic printing processes, including cyanotype, platinum and early printing processes such as 'Van Dyke Brown', as well as developing his own printing techniques. He uses analogue processes to subvert the reproducibility of the photographic medium, creating subtle variants and interventions using painting, liquid-light, gold-leafing and collage.

Recent exhibitions include: The Colonies will be Countries, EGEAC Culture em Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo - 2024); Caducado, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria (solo - 2024); A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK (group - 2024); E22 - Hacking identity, dancing diversity, Möllerei / Esch-Belval, Luxembourg (group - 2022), Città Foresta, SRISA, Florence Italy (solo - 2022); Europa, Oxalá, Mucem, Marseille, France (group - 2021-2022); L’inarchiviabile, KunstRaum Goethe, Rome, Italy (group - 2021), Arquivo Urbano, Tiwani Contemporary, London (solo - 2019); The Other Chapter, PHotoESPAÑA (group - 2019); African MetropolisAn imaginary city, MAXXI, Rome (group - 2018); Schengen, Villa Romana, Florence (group - 2018); La Cité dans le Jour Bleu, Dak’art Biennale (2018); Recent Histories, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm and New York (group - 2017); That, Around Which the Universe Revolves, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (group - 2017); Afrotopia, Bamako Encounters, Bamako (2017) and On Ways of Travelling, the Angolan Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).

Works
  • Délio Jasse, Darkroom , 2019
    Darkroom , 2019
  • Délio Jasse, Sem Valor - Recebido, 2019
    Sem Valor - Recebido, 2019
  • Délio Jasse, Multi Business, 2018
    Multi Business, 2018
  • Délio Jasse, Multi Business, 2018
    Multi Business, 2018
  • Délio Jasse, Multi Business, 2018
    Multi Business, 2018
  • Délio Jasse, Series Urban landscape #3, 2017
    Series Urban landscape #3, 2017
  • Délio Jasse, Cidade em movimento, 2016
    Cidade em movimento, 2016
  • Délio Jasse, The Lost Chapter: Nampula, 1963, 2016
    The Lost Chapter: Nampula, 1963, 2016
  • Délio Jasse, Ausência Permanente, 2014
    Ausência Permanente, 2014
  • Délio Jasse, Pontus, 2011 (printed in 2015)
    Pontus, 2011 (printed in 2015)
Press
Exhibitions