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Saturday, 10 May 2025

Santeri Tuori

Santeri Tuori

Sky #35, 2021
Archival pigment print
183 x 140 cm

With subjects rooted in traditional landscape painting, Santeri Tuori approaches nature similarly to 19th century Impressionists, using photography as a medium. 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. He interweaves black-and-white and color images, enhancing certain areas while erasing others, lending the final works a graphic quality, akin to colored pencil drawings.

Tuori’s Sky series focuses on the sky as a landscape in its own right. Echoing the Romantic artists who sought sanctity in natural phenomena, Tuori turns to clouds as an embodiment of the sublime, forming temporal montages out of various cloud formations. By combining photographs taken at different times and places, he creates images with enhanced depth and luminosity, blurring the line between painting and photography.