Niko Luoma

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Wednesday, 02 April 2025

Niko Luoma

Self-Titled Adaptation of Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool (1966) Version 2, 2018

184 x 155 cm

Archival 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.