Fotografia europea
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Biography
AINO KANNISTO
Aino Kannisto (Espoo, Finland, 1973) lives and works in Helsinki. Among her sources of inspiration are art, literature and video, and she considers making art a way to give meaning to life and to deal with human emotions.
She comes up with representations that are presented as still images, in which time seems to have stopped. The action stiffens in a fragmentary moment, situated between one intimated action and a passive wait.
She uses a procedure similar to that of cinematographic production. At first she sketches a scenario and a setting outlined by a drawn and written plot, where she herself is the protagonist.
No element, even apparently secondary, can be moved without destroying the scenic cohesion and hence the internal logic of the story. Everything is interlocked with the precise direction of the photographer, who pays enormous attention to the construction of the scene before photographing it.
Dreamy with a gaze looking inwards, isolated from the external world, the feminine figures of Kannisto rely only on themselves, they deal with their personal anxieties, feelings and thoughts. Her solitary protagonists act out in incommunicability and in inner solitude. The subtle signals of desperation, solitude and violence found in the self-representations of Kannisto arouse anxiety, perplexity and irritation in the observer.
She has had one-man shows in many private galleries, from Galerie m, Bochum, 2002 and 2006, to the galleries Forum für Fotografie, Cologne, 2003; Image, Arhus, 2003; Artina, Helsinki, 2004; Espacío Lìquido, Gijon, 2006; as well as in institutions such as the Finlandsinstitutet, Stockholm, 2003; the Kunsteverein Münsterland, Coesfeld, 2004; and the Insitut Français, Paris, 2004. Some of the collective exhibitions she has taken part in are the recent Self timer, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, København (Denmark); Presence – perspectives on Finnish photography, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku; Selbstauslöser, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; and The Helsinki School, Photology, Milan, all in 2006.
