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Renja Leino
+358(0)44 3631 503
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CV Renja Leino
Catalogue Absent Minds
www.renjaleino.com
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From the series Life of Bubble, 1999-2005
C-print mounted on aluminium
125 x 125 cm
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From the series Life of Bubble, 1999-2005
C-print mounted on aluminium
125 x 125 cm
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DVD Life of Bubble
Yellow, 2005
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Boy in Wonderland
City installation Absent Minds
Jyväskylä, 2006 |
Installing the work TELEVISION
4 x 5 m on canvas |
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Life of Bubble, OLIO
I was sitting on a buss, watching the scenery go by, when suddenly a strange building flashed before my eyes. The next time I passed the same place, I was ready to take a better look at the object. The bubble-shaped building was still there but somehow altered.
I gradually got into the habit of seeing how the "bubble" was doing. It really has a life of its own. I began to see meanings in the changing light and surfaces.
One day it lay flat on the ground. This made me extremely aware of the limits of our time. Also, about the necessity of photographing something when it still is because next moment it might be gone. It has been interesting, even amusing to follow how the thing takes different appereances
It is now over ten years since our first encounter. The sheer visual pleasure and strange symbolism of the object eventually led me to pull my car over and start shooting pictures of it.
The snow was particularly intriguing; the changes take place in seconds.
The light itself is stunning, and the constant state of change around us is fascinating. Photography makes all these changes visible - our visual memory is limited.
Bubble exist no more.
Images 1999-2005, several solo exhibitions in Finland.
Absent minds
Fascination and frustration are some words to describe my feelings as a starting point to this new series of photographs. For quite a long time I have been looking at people working by their computers, watching TV, playing PlayStation games.
It is almost the same, they have a strange expression on their face when they are inside a world of their own; faces in foreign landscape.
They are often serious; sometimes some familiar feelings can be visible on their faces. People are physically present, but their mind is absent.
The source, the box with electricity, pixels, magical light, some kind of Camera Obscura or Lucida, is catching their full concentration.
The phenomenon is global. No national borders exist when surfing abroad and around. Imaginary landscapes are visited, even real human contacts are made through the earth. All this happens within seconds.
The digital invasion is a fact. My new work is a study of this phenomenon of our time. For me it is not clear at all where all these electronic signals and impulses of light are leading us. Digital media is filling our rooms and our minds: The question is, with what.
Method: I use a mobile phone. People who I want to photograph can just relax because of this simple camera. Usually they even forget my presence because of the strange power of these machines they are working or playing with.
I also like the possibility of this small camera to play with color and light. In normal light conditions it works super. Sometimes it gives me visual surprises as a result, like present. Pixels are highly interesting, large print size important.
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