Photo exhibition Between the ends of the rainbow There are three Finnish photographers and at the same time fathers photo stories about their children and how it is to be a father. Some are more dramatic, some more comical and some more lyrical, which is why all these photographers together create a fabulous story about exploring and growing their children’s world.
There tend to be sudden magical moments that we keep in our memories – the dust playing in the sunlight, the hand of a loved one caressing our hair when we pretend we are still asleep, the indescribable conviction that for a short time the whole world is in the right place and at the right time – carefree yet secure, the feeling that I love and love me. These experiences cannot be forcibly recalled, but as we get older, we gain temporary access to the childhood bliss of aching chest. Aware of our vulnerability, knowing that we cannot protect our children from sorrow and anxiety, we give them our unconditional love.
Exhibition Between the ends of the rainbow will introduce the viewer to Johannes Romppanen (Johannes Romppanen) Princess Fighter Lily (Lily), a princess who doesn’t talk, a princess who doesn’t walk, a princess who will need help all her life. But above all, Princess Lily – a girl and a daughter who will soon be eight years old, a girl who can make choices with the sight of her eyes and get to know the area better than others with her hearing, a sister who can play with her brothers, a daughter she loves what she is and what she can do, not what she is not and what she cannot.
Aki and Astrid Sinikoski (Aki & Astrid Sinikoski) photo series New Gosts depicts the father-daughter relationship and their attempts to understand life, change, and the passage of time. Photographs ask questions about identity, adulthood, childhood, life and death – what patterns of behavior, ideals and future scenarios do we create for each other? Father and daughter have been researching their ghosts as an artist duo since 2011. And the whole work will be published in 2058, when Aki will turn 80 and Astrid 50.
Teo Vesterlund is photographing his two growing sons as if in a series of photographs Heartbeats there would be poems he did not learn to write. Poems about the boy’s years, long, innocence, vulnerability and mortality. This work seeks to ask questions that are fundamental to each person’s experience, but to which we may have lost answers as parents – what does childhood mean and how do they feel?
The exhibition is supported by Frame Contemporary Art Finland.
Curator: Tula Alajoki (Tuula Alajoki)
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