Congratulations to Petri Juntunen for making it to the finalists of the 2019 edition of Blurring the Lines with his monograph At the Heart of it All!
Blurring the Lines:
The aim of this call was to select, exhibit and publish projects that are a representation of the rapidly changing field of photography. And, at the same time show us why photography is an important medium in creating new perspectives on the world we live in and difficult issues we have to deal with.
At the Heart of it All:
Conflict produces terror. Having a desire to live, but realising that death is inevitable is managed by embracing cultural structures or systems that act to provide life with meaning and value. The knowledge of this Absurdity of Existence transforms into social constructs and eschatological fantasies that try to make the sense of ending bearable. On a larger scale, societies build symbols: laws, cultures and belief systems to explain the significance and meaning of life, but on an individual level it is the individual contemplating his own mortality. How one looks at his existence, at the same time seeing the beginning and sensing the inevitable end.
After my father’s slow withering by a hereditary heart condition, I became conscious of how it was affecting me as well, this inheritance of mine. Slowly coming to terms with my own mortality, a cognition that I had actively suppressed. What resulted was a regression back to my youth, the time of perpetual displacement, resorting to the very same coping mechanisms; manifesting my internal worlds by recreating, constructing and making them real, to create spaces that solely I inhabit and control. Building places and spaces where time is in stasis, suspended between the Tick and Tock. The works have been photographed in different locations around Europe during a five-year period
Petri Juntunen is a Finnish photographer and visual artist, currently living and working in Helsinki.
In his works and projects, Juntunen studies the topics of memory, existence and social constructs, often using novel methods of imaging and representation including 3D scanning, photogrammetry, photo sculptures and projections.
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The opening of the Blurring the Lines exhibition and the catalogue presentation will be on Tuesday, November 5th, 18.00, Espace F15 (PCA, 15 Rue Fénelon 75010 Paris) preceded but the PCA Talk “Hidden Realities” by Laia Abril.
http://www.petrijuntunen.com/dark-