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Sanna Kannisto
Syntynyt 1974 Hämeenlinnassa.
Asuu ja työskentelee Helsingissä.
E-mail
www.sannakannisto.com
CV Sanna Kannisto
Private Collection, 2003
c-print 130 x 161 cm
(105 x 130cm)
edition 7
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Bothriechis schlegelii, 2004
c-print 74 x 94 cm
edition 7
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Dictyophora indusiata, 2003
c-print 74 x 94 cm
edition 7
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Field Studies 1, 2003
c-print 105 x 130 cm
edition 7 |
Humminbird flight, Eupetomena macroura, 2005
series of 1-12
c-print 44 x 56 cm
edition 7 |
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Personal statement
My work explores the relationship between nature and culture. In my artistic work I aim to study the methods, theories and concepts through which we approach nature in art and in science. As an artist I am attracted by the idea that when I am working in a rain forest I am a 'visual researcher'.
Taking photographs in a field studio has become one of my most important working methods. The portable photography studio I have constructed is like a stage showing scenes from nature, which I direct. When the object has been taken out of its original setting - out of nature - it becomes special. These compositions in the field studio have also allegoric nature. For me photography is a medium, which in itself documents the transience of life.
One of my aims is to use irony and humour to investigate the concept of truth in photography and to ask how we actually want to view nature. The photographed objects are made intelligible by being photographed, and are incorporated into culture. In the same way as in science, art too is used to try to bring the world under control. The impossibility of this task is also linked with a certain absurdity that I have noticed in my pictures.
The pictures in the Private Collection and in the Field Studies series were taken at biological field stations and reserves in Brazil, French Guiana and Costa Rica in 2000-2004.
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