HIPPOLYTE STUDIO
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Tatu Hiltunen
Jamais Vu
9.1.–1.2. 2009
Jamais vu (eng. never seen) is a psychological term, used for describing a situation you are already familiar with, but which still gives you an unpleasant feeling, a situation in which you don´ t remember or recognize another person, a name, a word or a place. In general, jamais vu means the opposite of the concept of déjà vu.
My works, on adventure in the areas and the borderlands of moving picture, still picture, performance and dance choreography, show what it means to be a man. The departing point in these kinestetic self-portraits has been to investigate, as far as it is possible, the free and unpredictable behaviour of man, in open as well as in closed spaces. And how a registered eruption could be shown in a timeless flow, but at the same time as part of a certain moment. The events, situations and reactions in the works don´t follow any script; everything probably happened exactly there and then, in front of the camera. Still, in some works, a story, or at least a narrative state of emotions, emerged.
A human shape blocking a space, a surface, or time, can create hallucinations, and repeat questions from far back in time, and themes concerning identity, representation, art history, the incest between time and space, bodilyness and culturally determined behaviour. On a personal level, I think my works are a way of spatially showing my feelings and my history, and also a synesthetic collision between the pictures in my memory and my habits, and the facts governing the world.
In the exhibition, there are stop motion –animations. Stop motion is an animation technique, where a static object is being moved a little at a time, and every change is being projected on a separate screen. When you show the series of pictures at normal speed, the pictures rapidly following each other create an illusion of movement. The range of time each picture of the animations is shown varies from between fractions of a second to 10 seconds. The camera was just standing there on its foot, taking pictures on time. In some pictures, you see a moving flash and light painting from the moment of taking the picture, and in others, there are effects having been produced later, using the programmes of image processing and video clipping.
Tatu Hiltunen
The photographer Tatu Hiltunen (born in 1977 in Kuopio) is living in Vantaa, and is mostly working in Helsinki. He graduated as photographer from Turku Arts Academy in 2001, and as Master of Arts from the University of Art and Design in 2007. Works by Hiltunen have since 1998 been shown in several private, group and collective exhibitions in his home country as well as abroad. He has also received awards.In his art, he has shown events from everyday life, that first astonish you, then make you laugh, and finally make you cry. His social art works have in a dynamic way dealt with the themes of identity, human value, materialism, collective knowledge and memory, man´s relationship with nature, death, evoking questions concerning the limits between good and bad taste. In addition to photographing, Hiltunen has made video art, installations and music.
Tatu Hitunen, View, 2007 (videostill)
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More information:
Marja Kosunen, Hippolyte Studio, +358 9 612 33 44, info[at]hippolyte.fi
