Kaarlo Stauffer: Phantasmagoria is on view at the Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva until April 6, 2025.
Phantasmagoria presents works by Kaarlo Stauffer that are based on old family photographs, painted between 2017-2024. Phantasmagoria is Kaarlo Stauffer’s first solo museum exhibition.
Kaarlo Stauffer’s (b. 1988, Nastola, Finland) oil paintings draw on old family photographs. Rather than presenting his family’s story straightforwardly, he reflects on the act of image-making and its relationship to perceptions of reality, blending the traditions of photography and painting.
Stauffer explores themes of time passing and ageing, but also ghosts and the external, nothingness. The boundary between actual events and those imagined is intentionally obscured, a theme underscored by the exhibition’s title. The world presented in these works hints at the possibility of the supernatural.
Meet the artist with Kaarlo stauffer at MalvaThe event will take place on the 1st floor of Malva in the LähiTapiola Vellamo hall on Saturday Feb 15 at 14-15. No pre-registration required.
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