Jorma Puranen

L´étang qui se souvenait de tout

Jorma Puranen has become known for his works that arouse considerations bridging the past with the present. During a residency at the Fondation Claude Monet in Giverny, Jorma Puranen created his series 'L'étang qui se souvenait de tout' (The Pond That Remembered All). He explored the shifting atmospheres and fleeting light of the garden that inspired Claud Monet’s late works. Using long exposures and photographing reflections on a lacquered black panel—recalling the 18th-century Claude glass—the images blur the boundary between photography and painting. This series responds to Monet’s pursuit of "the enveloping air," rendering landscapes not as fixed scenes but as temporal, fluid impressions. The surfaces ripple with distortions, echoing the Impressionist master’s late struggle with cataracts and compromised vision. What results is a meditative dialogue across time—where the past flickers through reflections, and memory becomes a lens of its own.