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Aapo Huhta: Gravity
11.1.\u20139.2.2025
Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika<\/p>\n\n\n\n
”When […] the world of clear and articulate objects is abolished, our perceptual being […] evolves a spatiality without things. This is what happens in the night. Night is not an object before me; it enwraps me and infil\u00actrates through all my senses […]. Night has no outlines; […] it is pure depth without foreground or background, without surfaces and without any distance separating it from me.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Phenomenology of Perception<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Uusissa koruttoman mustavalkoisissa t\u00f6iss\u00e4\u00e4n Aapo Huhta t\u00e4ytt\u00e4\u00e4 valokuvansa niin l\u00e4pitunkemattomalla pimeydell\u00e4, ett\u00e4 jopa taivaanranta liukenee siihen. \u00d6ist\u00e4 tyhjyytt\u00e4 asuttavat hahmot n\u00e4ytt\u00e4v\u00e4t kietoutuneen maidonvalkeaan sumuun tai j\u00e4\u00e4v\u00e4n jonkinlaisen kosmisen s\u00e4teilyverhon taakse. Ne ovat sek\u00e4 kipe\u00e4n ruumiillisia ett\u00e4 \u00e4\u00e4rett\u00f6m\u00e4n kaukana, kuin visuaalisia kaikuja toisesta ulottuvuudesta. Hahmot eiv\u00e4t paljasta mit\u00e4\u00e4n asuttamastaan tilasta, koska niiden olemassaoloa eiv\u00e4t s\u00e4\u00e4tele meid\u00e4n tuntemamme fysiikan lait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kolmiulotteisuus on uhattuna, kun Huhta purkaa valokuvauksen figuratiivista perinnett\u00e4. Analogisilla prosesseilla ja ty\u00f6tavoilla Huhta v\u00e4\u00e4nt\u00e4\u00e4 teoksissaan avaruutta ja aikaa l\u00e4hes groteskeille mutkille. H\u00e4n v\u00e4\u00e4ristelee ihmiskehon \u00e4\u00e4riviivoja vimmatusti: n\u00e4it\u00e4 olentoja on pidett\u00e4v\u00e4 ennen muuta kuolevaisina<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kuvasarjassa Gravity Huhta jatkaa matkaansa eksistentiaalisten l\u00f6yt\u00f6jen polulla. H\u00e4n on keskittynyt taiteellisessa tuotannossaan aina ihmisen ja ymp\u00e4r\u00f6iv\u00e4n tilan suhteeseen ja et\u00e4\u00e4ntynyt vuosien mittaan dokumentaarisilta juuriltaan yh\u00e4 abstraktimpaan suuntaan. Ihmishahmo on edelleen Huhdan vakioaihe, mutta se on aina \u00e4\u00e4rimm\u00e4isen anonyymi. Kuten jo aiemmassa sarjassa Omatandangole, varjomaiseksi siluetiksi pelkistetyst\u00e4 yksitt\u00e4isest\u00e4 ihmisruumiista tulee ihmisyyden symboli, joka saa lukuisia merkityksi\u00e4. Sarjassaan Gravity Huhta k\u00e4\u00e4nt\u00e4\u00e4 t\u00e4h\u00e4nastisen v\u00e4ripalettinsa yll\u00e4tt\u00e4en p\u00e4\u00e4laelleen j\u00e4tt\u00e4m\u00e4ll\u00e4 taakseen porottavan auringonpaisteen, jonka l\u00e4pitunkemia aiemmat ty\u00f6t ovat olleet. Kun p\u00e4iv\u00e4 k\u00e4\u00e4ntyy iltaan, kuoleman l\u00e4sn\u00e4olo tulee tyk\u00f6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gravity tuntuu tapahtuvan t\u00e4p\u00e4r\u00e4sti suunnatonta mustaa aukkoa ymp\u00e4r\u00f6iv\u00e4n tapahtumahorisontin ulkopuolella, limbossa, jossa niin aine kuin k\u00e4sitteetkin muuttavat muotoaan romahduksen partaalle. Kehon hajoaminen n\u00e4ytt\u00e4ytyy koko kauheassa kauneudessaan Huhdan hyl\u00e4tess\u00e4 ihmisyksil\u00f6n kuvaamisen normit. Ikuisen y\u00f6n keskell\u00e4 Gravityn ulkoavaruus on t\u00e4ynn\u00e4 vihjeit\u00e4 siit\u00e4, mit\u00e4 on edess\u00e4, kun viimeisetkin voimat pett\u00e4v\u00e4t: loppu on pysyv\u00e4sti kuiva maisema. T\u00e4lt\u00e4 siis n\u00e4ytt\u00e4\u00e4 rauha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helen Korpak
taidekriitikko<\/p>\n\n\n\n
suomentaneet Markku P\u00e4kkil\u00e4 ja Helka Sivill<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In his new austerely black and white work, Aapo Huhta fills his photographs with a darkness so impenetrable that it dissolves the horizon. This nocturnal void is inhabited by figures that seem to be shrouded in milky mist or to exist behind a veil of cosmic radiation. They are at once painfully corporeal and infinitely distant, as if visual echoes from another dimension. These bodies give us no information on the space they inhabit, because their existence does not adhere to familiar laws of physics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three-dimensionality is in peril when Huhta dismantles the figurative tradition of the photograph. Through the use of analog processes and methods, his works warp space and time in a way that borders on the grotesque. The artist distorts the contours of the human body with a great sense of urgency: these beings are above all to be described as mortals<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The series Gravity<\/em> sees Huhta progress along a path of existential discovery. His artistic work has always been concerned with humankind’s relation to surrounding space, and has over the years moved away from its documentary origins to an increasing degree of abstraction. The human figure is a constant subject in Huhta’s photography, however, even if in a highly anonymized form. When reduced to a mere shadowy silhouette, as was the case in the artist’s previous series Omatandangole<\/em>, the individual body becomes a symbol for humanity and can take on a multitude of meanings. In Gravity<\/em> Huhta abruptly inverts his former colour scheme, turning away from the blistering sunshine that permeates his earlier work. As day turns to night, the presence of death makes itself known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gravity <\/em>seems to take place just outside of the event horizon of a fantastic black hole, in a limbo where both matter and concepts are altered to the point of collapse. The disintegration of the body is exposed in all its terrifying beauty as Huhta rejects the norms of <\/p>\n\n\n\n depicting the human individual. But embedded within the endless night of Gravity<\/em>’s outer space are clues of what lies beyond the final loss of power: the end is an enduring arid landscape. This, then, is what peace looks like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Helen Korpak Uusissa koruttoman mustavalkoisissa t\u00f6iss\u00e4\u00e4n Aapo Huhta t\u00e4ytt\u00e4\u00e4 valokuvansa niin l\u00e4pitunkemattomalla pimeydell\u00e4, ett\u00e4 jopa taivaanranta liukenee siihen.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":831,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-menneet"],"yoast_head":"\n
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