Helsinki Contemporary is pleased to present a curated duo of painter Eeva-Riitta Eerola and photographer Sanna Kannisto at Market Art Fair 2018.
One of the underlying themes behind both the artists’ work is perception of the world. Through her remarkably detailed photographs, Sanna Kannisto examines our relationship with nature and builds her images with small delicate variations. Her oeuvre combines powerful personal narrative with the idea of photography as objective documentation. By using a portable field studio to photograph birds and plants, Kannisto's work can be linked to the traditions of staged photography and still life.
Eeva-Riitta Eerola in turn looks into questions of otherness and the gaze, and similarly to Kannisto she works with delicate and precious variations. Eerola’s body of work explores the concept of perception and the various ways of understanding and experiencing images. She works with a variety of subjects as her starting point, reconstructing them in her pieces, and suggests multiple readings to viewers through the use of juxtaposition.