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Ville Lenkkeri
+358 50 347 4914
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CV Ville Lenkkeri
Sky, 2004
chromogenic digital print
120 x 160 cm / 90 x 120 cm
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Looking out of a Museum Window, 2005
chromogenic digital print
90 x 120 cm
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Himalaya, 2004
chromogenic digital print
120 x 90 cm
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Canned Heat, 2004
chromogenic digital print
120 x 90 cm |
Lake, Red - River, Green - Lake, Yellow, 2002-2004
chromogenic digital print
125 x 100 cm |
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Statement
I have a kind of psychoanalytical understanding of life and myself. That is that one's self consists of and is what it currently is only because of what has been before, what has happened and touched the self, what one has experienced. All of it, the conscious and the subconscious. I do not need to see this as a cure or remedy, but more as a process of self-discovery. We only are what we are due to what we have been and what we have experienced in the past in a way that we have undergone a change, a development. Desires and our actions toward their fulfilment also play a role not to be under evaluated in what we are.
I have recognized that only by engaging in the making of things about one's own concerns, about oneself that is, sincerity and then authenticity can be found. In that sense all art is autobiographical and everybody concerning with art should be concerned with themselves. It is not only useless but also harmfull to try to forget or to get over anything that has happened to one as that would be twisting oneself to be something different from its true appearance. For this reason I tend to return to places and people that have been important and significant in one or another way for me being what I am.
Art is to be given meaning in a subjective experience apart from skill demanding and learnable practices of handicraft, illustration and entertainment. An experience is about finding out something one couldn't make up, it is tasting a fruit instead of letting someone tell what it tastes.
Garry Winogrand's contemporary notion that he likes to take pictures in order to see what places and things look like when photographed reveals the existence of the fundamental difference in between an experience and an image, between life and imitation that is. The meaning and the message are not to be found in the actual outcome of a deed, but in the deliberate decisions of doing it the way it was done. The material or even immaterial outcome, -the piece of art- is never anything else but an object, a sign guiding a viewer towards the essence and a starting point for a journey to an experience, unavoidably though different from the original one that through a subjective seeing and processing had taken the form of the art work in case. Art is not in the final work but behind it. It is in the process of conceptualising ideas concerning oneself and one's cultural and geographical contexts and then in experiencing and reforming them by doing so.
Result and also concept are only fading shadows of the actual deed, the experience. T.S. Eliot was talking about this when mentioning the shadow that always falls in between the intention and its fulfilment. That shadow is the human touch that creates both the beauty and the ugly, it is life. Art really has to be understood as something inseparable from life.
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