After training extensively as a zoologist, German artist Jochen Lempert began taking photographs of the animal world, merging his scientific expertise with a more formal, visual, and poetic sensibility. Hung in a grid on the outside wall of The Front Room, the series of black-and-white portraits of birds portray living creatures as forms suspended in space.
![<em>Jochen Lempert</em>, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, March 3–April 18, 2010. Photo: Lynna Borden.](https://camstl.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Jochen-Lempert_1-1000x0-c-default.jpg)