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.