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Minna Kantonen
1975
Asuu ja työskentelee Lontoossa
+44(0)7852115047
E-mail
www.source.ie/artists/artistsK/artkanmin.html#lineofheightf
www.artgene.co.uk/resident_kantonen.htm
www.re-title.com/artists/minna-kantonen.asp
CV Minna Kantonen
From: 'Line of Height', 2002-2005
100 x 80 cm
lambda prints
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From: 'Line of Height', 2002-2005
100 x 80 cm
lambda prints
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From: 'Line of Height', 2002-2005
100 x 80 cm
lambda prints
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From: 'Line of Height', 2002-2005
100 x 80 cm
lambda prints |
From: 'A Small Book of Trees', 2001-2005
20 x 24 inches
lambda prints |
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Kantonen's art practice often results in a series of photographs. Her images are playful yet leave space for reflection.
Line of Height features a selection of large scale images form a series photographed in the UK and Finland. They reflect on the idiosyncrasies of different work environments; cluttered offices and sparse, brightly lit factory floors; opening up hidden spaces not ordinarily granted attention and yet which appear strangely familiar.
The title refers to the workers that inhabit the spaces, whom the artist has systematically arranged in rows. Figures stand in order of height, perhaps subverting conventional hierarchies amongst staff. Stood in this unnatural formation, the people are presented objectively, each defined in relation to each other. The surrounding environment absorbs them, appearing dominant through the angel of the camera, and yet when we look closely, we discover individual attempts to personalise workstations, with photographs and ornamentation, impressing their quirks on the otherwise generic surroundings, and thus merging public and private worlds
(Anna Pike)
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