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Galerie m Bochum will present the latest works by Aino Kannisto as well as early, previously unreleased works from 1997.
Aino Kannisto herself always sits as subject for her photographs. Playing a wide variety of roles these images are not to be mistaken for self-portraits. What is shown instead are invented scenes in constructed settings which evoke an open game with associations and fantasy.
It is not only the endless web of thought strands these photographs inspire that captivates the viewer, but also their aesthetic, the composition of forms and colors. The tones of the wallpaper, clothing and everyday objects harmonize and the carefully chosen cropping generates balanced formal structures and relations between surfaces.
In the latest works since 2010 the female figures are more than ever imbedded in the composition. The narrative potential evoked by the women in the early photographs is now extenuated in favor of a more reduced and straight composition of forms and colors.
With the mesmerizing appeal of their intricate arrangements and subtle moods, Aino Kannisto s photographs reveal not only the artists fine sense of pictorial composition but also her skill at creating sensitively felt moods.
Artists: Aino Kannisto
