Jennifer
Harnack

Harnack's practice builds images piece by piece through fragmentation and layering - each element placed with full intention, each decision a refusal to arrive at the expected result. The work operates at the collision point between cultural registers that are normally kept apart: classical portraiture, street iconography, pop references, and art history assembled through the same constructive logic. What appears culturally legible on the surface - recognizable faces, known symbols, familiar references is rebuilt against its own readability, fragmented and reassembled somewhere the eye did not expect to arrive. The surface invites recognition; the structure denies it.