Self-Titled Adaptation of Woman I (1950-52), 2024
193 x 147 cm
Pigment Print
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.
Through techniques of repetition and overlapping, he disassembles these
images into shapes and rearranges them, destroying their initial forms.
This process generates a seemingly random set of geometric figures.
Using only light, stencils, and color filters, he builds his images one
shape at a time. Each adaption creates a surprising dialogue with the
original artwork, the similarities becoming increasingly apparent upon
closer inspection.