PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY HIPPOLYTE
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
+358 9 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi
Open: Tue-Fri 12:00-17:00, Sat-Sun 12:00-16:00
Closed: 6.12.2009, 24.-27.12.2009 & 31.12.2009-1.1.2010

4.12.2009 - 3.1.2010
Jaakko Koskentola
AT OTHER TABLES

Artist Talk Sunday Dec 13, 2 PM - Welcome! (in Finnish)

‘With Jaakko Koskentola’s images I begin to explore the possibility, which at first appears metaphorical or lyrical, that touch is something intrinsically entwined with seeing.

Can the eye touch; can it be one of the sensory apparatuses of touch? Can a look console, from afar, or is it only an angel of longing and missing, of distance?

Can distance be, as well as a promise of a touch, also touch itself?

The unreality of Koskentola’ images are in their reality, which is strangely leading. I have seen, felt, experienced all this but this is not what I see and have seen. All this, this scene, is beside me, outside, like the look of a photographic apparatus forgotten at that (not this) table. Am I that much of a stranger even to myself?’

Ari Kakkinen
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Jaakko Koskentola’s exhibition ‘At other tables’ deals with loneliness, alienation, and the difficulty of meeting people. The narrator is a man looking at other people's tables where life and fun always seem to be and to which he has no access.

The series has been shot in restaurants in Helsinki in 2009 and it is also a documentary of the Helsinki restaurant scene.

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Jaakko Koskentola (b. 1965) lives ands works in Helsinki. His works have previously been exhibited in eg Gallery Katariina of the Helsinki Artists’ Association and Fotokelder Lee of the Tallinn Photography Museum. In his previous works he has studied sleeplessness and loneliness.

Jaakko Koskentola : from series At Other Tables, 2009

For more information and press images, please contact:
Petronella Grönroos, exhibition co-ordinator / Photgraphic Gallery Hippolyte +358 9-612 33 44, firstname.lastname@hippolyte.fi