Santeri Tuori

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Wednesday, 02 April 2025

Santeri Tuori

Water Lilies #29, 2023

Archival pigment print

196 x 150 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.

With his Water Lilies series, Tuori combines a carefully selected set of photographs taken at different stages of the same season. Assembled together, they evoke an East Asian surrealist aesthetic, with the lilies appearing to hover on the water's surface. These images become visual portals, capturing nature's metamorphosis and evoking a profound sense of "time being.”