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Jorma Puranen / Shadows, reflections and all that sort of thing (1997-2004).

“While photographing painted portraits I thought that what I was doing was in fact like knocking on the frame of a painting and asking ‘Is anyone there?’ or saying ‘Wake up, I know you're there’”.

“I am not interested in imitating painting or considering photography with the concepts of painting. This question is of a closer viewing of historical paintings, experiencing them and an attempt to expand their attendant ambiguous space to apply also to our own time”.

“[…] after some two decades of deliberating the problem of representation and the ‘everyday’, we can see how there is now discussion in contemporary art on the opportunities of beauty, the sublime and the picturesque in a completely new way”.

“As a concept beauty is of course problematic and heavily laden. The question may also be of revealing levels of subjectivity and providing room for reflexivity, which the rationalism of the modern world has stifled so many times”.

“These reflections arouse in the viewer some kind of feeling of vulnerability, which is created by the tensions between the moment and permanence, between a flash of light and patina that is centuries old”.

“This work was not about addressing the relationship of the original and the copy, but about the photographic process as such, the complex ways of seeing, the possibility of presence”.

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Tomado de: “Dialogue: Marjatta Levanto and Jorma Puranen”. http://www.anhava.com/?http://www.anhava.com/exhibitions/puranen/index-a.html