ANNI LEPPÄLÄ

In Anni Leppälä’s art, symbolic meanings and poetical, subconscious elements are in crucial role. She is interested in how the concrete surface of reality and photographs relate to metaphorical things that can be found underneath. Theatrical elements like velvet curtains, stages, masks, emotional colors, the stillness of poses; they all underline the processes of staging and dreamlike quality of her imagery. She has created personal and sensitive style of presentation for her art with airy, floating but intensive layout of her exhibitions.

JAANA MAIJALA

Jaana Maijala’s work is hard to put in any category. She travels fluently from drawing to photograph, from photograph to three dimensional objects and so on. In her works there is anyhow question – in the end – about photographs. She creates visual transformations for the viewer and their senses. Works are changing their physical and mental character constantly. That’s a result for combining different methods and scales together. The process she goes through in her art is physical and painstaking, ending sometimes almost to anti materialistic philosophical analysis about void, sometimes massive sculptures with enigmatic physical power.

NELLI PALOMÄKI

Nelli Palomäki’s portraiture photographs represents the genre, where you don’t first expect to find some extremely fresh to look at. In her case this prejudgment turns immediately out wrong. Palomäki is not preying nor chasing people. She goes to their skin and shares her life with them, and that goes both ways. There is not a target and the photographer as we are used to see. The contact between subject and object is so intensive, that you forget there has been a camera and photographer in the situation. The result in image is pure flesh, blood and beauty.