FOREVER NOW 2025
FOREVER NOW
JULINKA DOENHOFF
Photography Exhibition — Palma 2025
In Forever Now, Julinka Doenhoff explores the delicate balance between the ephemeral and the eternal in everyday life. Through her photography, she captures fleeting, luminous moments where the timeless reveals itself within the ordinary—a glimpse of the Forever in the Now.
LIGHT REFLECTIONS
LIGHT REFLECTIONS
Themes of loss and displacement are deeply woven into the artist’s family history. Originally from East Prussia, the Doenhoff family was forced to flee during World War II, leaving behind their home and heritage. The trauma experienced by her parents and grandparents left a lasting imprint, shaping Julinka Doenhoff’s awareness that nothing—memories, belongings, or a sense of place—is guaranteed to endure.
Against this backdrop, she began photographing fleeting patterns of light that appeared on the stone walls of her childhood home. These subtle, often unnoticed reflections possess a quiet, almost mystical presence. To the artist, they hint at an unseen realm—timeless, immanent, and always there. Even if the physical structure were to vanish, she believes the light would remain, finding new ways to appear. In these images, light becomes a metaphor for continuity beyond loss.
HEADS
HEADS
Created at the outset of the war in Ukraine, this series emerged from a time of chaos and uncertainty. In response, Doenhoff turned inward, exploring the theme of stillness in the face of upheaval.
These works layer hand-drawn portraits of human heads with photographs of water and light. The resulting images evoke a sense of inner worlds—multiple realities existing at once: the visible and the unseen, the temporal and the timeless. Like her earlier series, these composite portraits reflect a quiet resilience and meditative calm—offering a visual expression of the Forever in the Now.
WATER AND SHADOW
WATER AND SHADOW
This series explores the artist’s shadow moving through sunlight over a pebbled sea floor—an ever-changing interplay between form, light, and rugged ground. The works suggest that life itself is composed of layered perceptions, shifting with our gaze. The shadow, the dancing light, and the solid stones come together in a quiet dialogue between the transient and the eternal, the earthly and the ethereal.
In another image, a splash of water resembles a distant galaxy. This visual suggestion of the micro and macro speaks to the interconnectedness of all things. Like drops returning to the ocean, our lives too are brief separations from the vastness of the universe.