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"Forest" 2000 |
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Riitta Päiväläinen
Finland
Born 1969
University of Art and Design, Helsingfors; Masters of Arts
Program, Departments of Photography, 1998-, Bachelor of Art,
Departments of Photography, 1996-98, Departments of Art, 1993-
Business Collage of Kuopio, Departments of Foreign Trade,
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Päiväläinen is fascinated by history, which one can not find in
library books, in files or archives. Her photographs shows an interest
in the "unwritten history" and focus on the absence and presence.
The process of testing by doing - to slit, freeze, take to pieces,
to tack, to baste and to burn are important procedures. The clothes
and objects that the artist use are bought in second hand shops
and flee markets, which means that one will never be totally aware
of the true stories and personal histories belonging to the items.
A cloth is not only a cloth when left behind, it also bears a left
human presence. Clothes have their own silent history and work as
metaphorical elements, as shelters and as protection. Clothes are
intimate and human and bear their own history but tells a new one
depending on how they are presented or in which context they get
in.
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"Overcoat" 1999
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