HIPPOLYTE STUDIO
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
+358 9 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi

Veera Lipasti
AFTER
15 August to 7 September 2008
Open: Tue-Fri 12-17, Sat-Sun 12-16

Veera Lipasti's exhibition in Hippolyte Studio consist of three self-portraits. In this entity Lipasti tries to perceive the absent self and memory through the imprints of her own face: the experiences of sorrow, longing and being lost. Lipasti has sketched her features on three different surfaces. She has embroidered her crying face on a handkerchief that has absorbed many tears, outlined her image on a pillow with pins and drawn her face on a paper, wiping out each drawing before drawing on a new one.

Time is strong theme in the exhibition: memory and its wavering. Memories fade away slowly, traces of events become misty and disappear unnoticed. But some trace is left anyway. It has taken a lot of time to make each work, and all the emotions and thoughts experienced during that time, as well as the history of the objects themselves, are captured in the works as echoes heard in the background. When working with her image she also works with herself.

Veera Lipasti (born 1983) studies photography at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. She has also studied multimedia production at the Institute of Design at Lahti University of Applied Sciences. In her photographs Veera Lipasti deals with her own self-trying also to treat searching for oneself, emotions and moods in a wider perspective. Lipasti is interested in secret and concealed things; things not visible to the eye but yet present. In her photographs she tries to capture these hidden worlds, either as concrete places or passing emotions. Another theme appearing in Lipasti's works is time: the passing of time and its layers, the effect of time on oneself, places and things.

 

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