Santeri Tuori

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Thursday, 22 August 2024

Santeri Tuori

Sky #47, 2024

Pigment print

160,5 x 220 cm

Santeri Tuori has a very personal relationship in his approach to nature, much like the Impressionist painters of the 19th century. Although he uses the photographic process to create his images, his subjects have their roots in traditional landscape painting and drawing. By observing and measuring nature's ever-changing growth from season to season, year after year, Tuori uses his photographs as means to encapsulate the passage of time. This conceptual process is achieved by layering one photographic negative upon another to create his own imaginary landscape.

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.