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Do you keep an eye in the nighttime for the street-corners? Do you check the corridors before entering them? Do you feel yourself unsecured, if someone walks behind you to the same direction? Do women choose different walking routes and different strategies, compared to men, and what kind of influence this has in terms of daily routines?
I am interested in the historic layers within the landscape, and particularly
in the values, which are added to the landscape and space. A picture of space
can be seen also as a picture of psyche and mental processes. On the fringes
of certainness and safety of the urban space, do exist gray areas, where lies
the possibility of threat, danger and violence. This uncertainness shows in
daily use of safety and surveillance equipment, and in our everyday routines.
The pictures of the series Topography of Fear are taken during the nighttime
in Finland and Newcastle, Northumbria, Uk and Vienna, Austria. Instead of sociological
processes, my object is space. The menace could become true: the space is empty
in the pictures. It is full of possibilities, potential of emptiness, like an
empty scene without actors and arrangement. Only traces are left from the presence
of people or things, which might have happened there. The basis for my work
has been the concept of mise-en-scène – scenic emptiness.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
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Ari Saarto, Helsinki topography of fear 26.09. - 20.10.2002 Eröffnung: Weitere Ausstellungen: Oliver Raszewski decade Michael Ayala Claus Bach Ralph Bageritz Andrej Barov Wol x-mas Ausstellung Susan Lipper N.Y. trip Marla Sweeney USA Home as Found - On the Inside Thomas Zika Placebo Yoichiro Kawaguchi Luminous Visions Tatsumi Orimoto ART NTC |
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