HIPPOLYTE STUDIO
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki
+358 9 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi
Open: Tue–Fri 12-17, Sat–Sun 12-164–27 November 2011
Katri Naukkarinen
SIMPLE AS TRUTHThe idea of a distinct undertaking has gradually been replaced by the ongoing performance of photography. The small portable camera has become an inseparable part of my everyday life. My pictures arise from unexpected observations and titillations that are unsuitable for any other type of communication, yet they are all unequivocally figurative.
When I take photographs, I always find myself reflecting upon that emotional contact which makes me feel my immediate surroundings are mine. The same personal process also occurs in front of the photographs when we search for our own paths to them.
I find great enjoyment in the sense of bewilderment offered by photography, when I am sometimes baffled as to what I have thought the picture might be like when I was taking it. Moreover, I get bored quite quickly if I look at a picture and it seems to hijack my thoughts to tell me its own story without inviting personal exploration. When, instead of cementing their interrelations, combinations of images allow my own meandering thoughts to penetrate among them, I lose my confidence in deconstructive analysis. That is when I feel alive, just as when I am taking photographs.
Katri Naukkarinen (b. 1984) is an MA photography student at the School of Art and Design in the Aalto University. The key elements in her work are an emphasis on practice and criticism of representation. She also studies aesthetics at the University of Helsinki. In her earlier diploma work for the Institute of Design at the Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Naukkarinen studied art as a corporeal experience, combining different artistic and scientific disciplines. Currently she works on her MA thesis on the subject of observation.
Naukkarinen’s earlier solo exhibitions, Seeds and Mind the Membrane, were held in Galleria Kalleria in Helsinki. She has also participated in group exhibitions, including one at the Mono Gallery in Tokyo, and two curated exhibitions of the Union of Student Photographers of Finland, one in the Taidepanimo gallery in Lahti, the other in the Jukka Male Museum.
More information and press images:
Hippolyte Studio / Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, +358 9 612 33 44, info@hippolyte.fi
(image: Katri Naukkarinen -- Monolith)
