PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY HIPPOLYTE
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
+358 9 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi
Open: tue-fi 12:00-17:00, sat-sun 12:00-16:009.10.-1.11.2009
HANNA TIMONEN
Pictures of Mornings, Days and Nights
The works in the exhibition depict locations in Helsinki, built in the 1960s and 70s, which are due to be remodelled and rebuilt in the near future. The images are of mundane habitats; suburban landscapes that people pass through every day. These environments are interesting to me because of their ‘everyday’ character, and the way that they appear somehow self-evident. The passing of days itself could be understood as similarly self-evident or transparent, though in the course of it even large changes take shape.
Suburban landscapes interest me as spaces in which a romantic longing for nature meets aspirations for the modern. What is contained by these ideals of the modern varies in different epochs, something which has the effect of making them appear as layered and even paradoxical. That which once was the ‘New’ is now old – either outdated or an object of nostalgia.
The exhibition consists of photographs and moving image. The series Memories from Balcony Vol. I and II shows 12 views shot from a balcony between 2005 and 2008. The seasons, times of day and moods shift in them. The images culminate in the dismantling of the office building visible in all of them. Itäväylä is a moving image work that documents the sun setting and rising above the sea, as seen from Kulosaari motorway bridge. The landscape shown disappears and reappears in accordance with the amount of light available to expose the film. In all the works in the show I am exploring the slow changes in both a ‘natural’ landscape and built environments, and their potentially analogous relationship to the changes of light on film. In the digital age film as a photographic medium is in a state of flux similar to the places I take pictures of.
Hanna Timonen
Hanna Timonen (b. 1975) is an artist based Helsinki. She has a BA in Photographic and Digital Arts from the University of Westminster in London, and has completed her MFA studies in the Department of Fine Art Media at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Her most recent exhibition was in Galleria Huuto in Helsinki in May 2008.
Acknowledgements: AVEK
Hanna Timonen, 2009
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Photographic Gallery Hippolyte Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary
Thirty years passed in December 2008 since the opening of Photographic Gallery Hippolyte. The gallery celebrates its anniversary year from 4 December 2008 to 29 November 2009 with a programme that includes exhibitions, a photographic festival, a cross-disciplinary art event and a residency. The anniversary events of Photographic Gallery Hippolyte are part of the Year of Photography 2009 programme. www.katse.orgPhotographic Gallery Hippolyte’s anniversary year has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
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Information and press images:
Petronella Grönroos, exhibitions co-ordinator
Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, +358 9 612 33 44, firstname.lastname@hippolyte.fi
www.katse.org
