PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY HIPPOLYTE
K alevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
+358 9 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi
PÄIVI ERONEN
Photographs of Bathers
11 January–3 February 2008
Open: Tue-Fri 12:00-17:00 h, Sat-Sun 12:00-16:00 h
Photographs of Bathers presents pictures of enjoyment that transcends the boundaries of ordinariness and everyday life. The photographs also attest to the vitality of water as an element that caresses both the human body and mind. Clean, refreshing water is vital for all life and it is necessary that its supply be maintained. In a world of rapid transboundary movement and action, the global water issue has been recognised for a long time. News about problems are broadcast continuously, because without clean water there can be no life. The climate is warming, with winter snows coming later and thinner every year. Will our only testimony of freezing winters in the future be photographs of a past when it was still possible to experience the diversity of snow and ice?
The 12 photographs of bathers are also a condensed story about and a statement in defence of clean and refreshing water that we must care for and share in many ways. The storytellers in the photographs are the people I have photographed enjoying the many forms of bathing.
Most of the photographs in the exhibition were taken in Finland, Italy and Iceland in 2004–2007.
– Päivi Eronen
The exhibition has received funding from the National Council for Photographic Art.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Kylpijät – The Bathers, a photographic book of 176 pages, will be published in conjunction with the show.
Expanding on her show The Bathers held in Gallery Hippolyte in 2002, Päivi Eronen has broadened her examination of the theme into a photographic book on the various forms of bathing. The book has received state quality support for the publication of photographic art.
Päivi Eronen: Kylpijät – The Bathers (Maahenki, Helsinki 2007)
bound, soft cover, 205 x 260 x 20 mm, ISBN 978-952-5652-14-7, price € 30---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Päivi Eronen: Koivumäen savusauna, 2006----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For further information, book orders and press images, please contact:
Petronella Gronroos, exhibitions co-ordinator / Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, +358 9 612 33 44, firstname.lastname@hippolyte.fi
