Persons Projects

Viewing Room

Jyrki Parantainen

Alphabet of Possibilities, 2004/2025

Print, insect pins, brass wire

68 x 80 x 8 cm

The young girl in this photograph, Julia, is the daughter of a Vietnamese refugee who immigrated to Finland. She was also a close friend of the artist’s son. The image was taken in the Helsinki Botanical Garden, chosen for its gentle light and lush vegetation. Julia gazes through a window, embodying the boundless potential of youth and the open possibilities of her future in a new land—a reflection of the hopes and possibilities that exist for all of us.

Jorma Puranen

L´étang qui se souvenait de tout 10, 2024
Pigment print
85 x 65 cm

Jorma Puranen is renowned for his works that explore the interplay between past and present. His practice spans ethnographic photography, historical portraiture, and landscape painting, often drawing inspiration from archives and museums. However, his approach to the archive is undisciplined - fragmentary rather than systematic. In Puranen’s work, the photograph becomes a space for reinterpreting a fluid past, where past and present converge. Reflection itself emerges as a central theme, and ultimately, Puranen seems to suggest that light is the only true reality to which the photograph has access.

Santeri Tuori

Woodlands #1, 2025

Pigment print

200 x 153 cm

With his subjects rooted in traditional landscape painting, Santeri Tuori approaches nature similarly to the 19th-century Impressionists. He uses photography as a medium to capture natural elements such as forests, skies, water lilies, and wind. By observing nature’s changes over seasons and years, Tuori encapsulates the passage of time in his photographs by layering one image upon another to create imaginary landscapes. His Woodlands series was conceived in England, where the woods offer a distinct character compared to the dense, unbroken forests of his native Finland.

Nanna Hänninen

Magic Forest of Dahshur #2, 2025

Archival pigment print, paint

42 x 56 cm

Nanna Hänninen’s artistic practice focuses on using her works as a means to enlighten our awareness to those environmental issues that are affecting our communities Worldwide. Pollution, global warming and the effects of over urbanization are rapidly changing what our future will look like.

Zofia Kulik

Module I, 2002

40 x 60 cm

Silver gelatin print

Zofia Kulik's Modules series includes a group of symmetrical, allegorical, and ornamental small photographic compositions created as photomontages, using multiple exposures of negatives onto photographic paper through precisely prepared stencils. Visually, the works are constructed based on the mirror reflection. The starting point for the work is Kulik’s extensive archive, a collection of black-and-white images. The most essential part is the Archive of Gestures, which includes approximately 700 photographs of Zbigniew Libera in various poses quoted from iconography from art history.

Grey Crawford

Baltz #38, 2025

Pigment print

50.5 x 66 cm

Born and raised in Southern California, Grey Crawford was one of the first artists from the 1970s generation to use the photographic medium as a conceptual tool to manipulate his images in the darkroom. Inspired by the basic shapes used by the California hard-edge painters John McLaughlin and Karl Benjamin, Grey Crawford distinguished himself early on from the popular topographers of that era such as Lewis Baltz. He uniquely integrated these geometric forms into his photographs using various masking techniques—learned in his studies at Rochester Institute of Technology—that allowed separate exposures in any areas he selected.

Niko Luoma

Self-Titled Adaptation of A Bigger Splash version 1 (1967), 2018

194 x 156 cm

Archival pigment print, Diasec

Known for his experiments in abstraction through analog photography, Niko Luoma uses light as a raw material to combine multiple exposures on the same photo negative. His Adaptations series explores his fascination with reinterpreting artworks from art history that have influenced the way we think about art as a society. He analyses the paintings by creating sketches that deconstruct each work based on its lines of perspective and counterpoints.

Mikko Rikala

Farewell Transmission (5), 2025

Pigment print, mirror

75 x 58 cm

In his Farewell Transmission works, the works explore the transformation and disappearance of stylistic movements, through the aesthetics of the Baroque. Mirror fragments emerging behind the horizontal and vertical cuts reflect the present moment through the lens of a historical era.

Milja Laurila

In Their Own Voice, 2016

3 UV-prints on acrylic glass

61 x 130 x 12 cm

The images in this series are printed on transparent acrylic glass, which makes the portrayed figures translucent, almost weightless. Placed on wooden shelves facing the wall, the transparent material enables the figures to be formed through chiaroscuro as three-dimensional reflections on the walls. These soft shadows are bound to the movement of the viewer. In some of the works, the glass plates are placed on a pedestal or on the floor, facing each other. When the viewer walks around these sculptural pieces, the image changes constantly depending on the viewpoint of the observer.

Katarzyna Kozyra

Lou Salome Palais Schwarzenberg: Carriage, 2005

Archival pigment print

90 x 125 cm

In a video and a photographic series created at the Schwarzenberg Palace in Vienna, Kozyra plays the role of Lou Salomé – an intellectual and a femme fatal, friend of Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Reiner Maria Rilke. In Kozyra’s interpretation, Nietzsche and Rilke are subjected to training as two dogs led on a leash by Salomé, again played by Kozyra, who walks them through the palace halls and takes them out to the gardens. The series Lou Salomé was created in 2005, but has never been displayed publicly in its entirety.