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Upcoming Exhibitions:

ARCO MADRID 2020
26th FEB - 1st MAR 2020
SPAIN, MADRID
with Persons Projects

BOOK
June 2020

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It‘s the first public day at ARCO Madrid! Visit us from 12-8pm at Booth 9C08 to see works by #GreyCrawford, #TiinaItkonen, #EevaKarhu, #VilleKumpulainen, #DominikLejman, #JanneLethinen, #NikoLuoma, #ArnoMinkkinen, #JyrkiParantainen, #FinnbogiPétursson, #RagnaRóbertsdóttir, #NooraSandgren, #JariSilomäki and #SanteriTuori ________________________________________

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Thanks to everyone who visited my exhibition at @p

Thanks to everyone who visited my exhibition at @purdyhicksgallery ! It was such a pleasure exhibiting my works there, I just adore the space and the lovely people working there. 📸 @aroheina

The last week of my exhibition in London starts to

The last week of my exhibition in London starts tomorrow. If you are around go and have a look @purdyhicksgallery

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Last week of Eeva Karhu in London
But here is the beginning of my text for her forthcoming book:

Circles have had a bad rap for some time. Even a lowly Roman soldier disturbed Archimedes’ circles. If you can’t walk in a straight line you are not considered sensible or sober. Yet scientists since the 1920s have said people are incapable of walking in straight lines without the aid of stars or related guiding system. Recently with satellite tracking they have been able to prove it. In every picture Karhu makes there appears to be a straight path heading into the woods, but her pictures recall a circuitous route. She is as regular as a monk or nun circling a cloister. She lulls us into a contemplative thinking mode that triggers surprises.
When she walks out of her front door some thirteen kilometers from the centre of Helsinki, Karhu very much looks as if she intends to walk in a straight line. She takes a photograph and heads for the horizon. Her works are full of the horizon, literally some 86 of them laid one on top of the other. Each individual work is the amalgam of 86 different photographs. After a while of looking at her works one starts seeing a single figure in the centre of the picture. It is coming to claim us rather like Omar Sharif in the scene where he appears ever so slowly out of the desert in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia. Though there is an element of the same purity as in Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes, she is not pursuing the near perfect horizontal line of the sea or desert. Her feet are firmly on Finnish soil and the pictures trace her path to the horizon and back. If she lived in a desert or on the sea her method would only require two photographs, one at the point of departure and other at the point she decreed the horizon, but the trees, houses, hillocks, bushes and other features of the landscape on her doorstop requires her to halt 86 times, and take another picture of another horizon.
Karhu’s work comes out of her knowledge of her surroundings, of a path well-trodden. Yet she says she is constantly surprised by the results.
And for much more ... her book comes out in June.
#eevakarhu #purdyhicks

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Eeva Karhu uses the photographic process of layering one image upon another as her method for collecting the passage of time. In her Path series - on show at Purdy Hicks Gallery until 19 February- she photographs the same walking route she takes from her home. After her walk she compiles all the photographs together in one image to form the given moment they were taken. She continues this process throughout the year, creating her own visual calendar of time periods based on the harvesting of light from one moment to the next.

Tb to @londonartfair where my work Path 5, 2011 wa

Tb to @londonartfair where my work Path 5, 2011 was exhibited with great success. Thanks to @purdyhicksgallery for making this possible!

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