Marc Berville Prospects and MB Fotografie are pleased to announce Whiteneses, the first personal exhibition of the finish photographer Ari Kakkinen at the 7D Brunnenstrasse gallery.
In a closed space, vacant of all perceptible human presence, filled with wraiths and a sacral magnetism, the theatre of memory and time is played out.
Ari Kakkinen in a sculptor gesture, places the white of cloth layers, freezing an achromous all-over and carving thus, a mental landscape which formal delineaments make identities null. Behind that "whiteout", just as behind a white page shaded with graphs, a story takes shape, a will of narration is mentally perceptible but visually short-circuited.
Invisible !
The object of our attention is invisible and presented as such; what we see is The Invisible as invisible.
It is by experiencing this kind of chiasmus that Ari Kakkinen walks on the thin line between Conceptual and Visual.
In this respect, let's consider the use of white colour. Where the Latin languages don't make the difference between the colour of a swan's feathers and a knowledge-gap, and use consequently the same word blanc, bianco or blanco; the English language distinguishes the white white, from the white blank. Although it shows here its coloured nature of white white, the drape becomes as well the white blank, the blank of the blur of remembrance, the blank of selective erasure, the blank of the selection proceeded by the unconscious. It is also the blank of emptiness, absence and oblivion, the blank of the Nothing, the no-thing. By a game of mental analogy between white and blank, Ari Kakkinen's photographs are trying to prove the un-neutrality of the neutral, by the same ways we endeavour to convince ourselves not to think, to make the void and damp the swiftness of the mind, thus we begin to feature the Nothing and therefore to think.
Even tough Ari Kakkinen's clichés seem peaceful and meditative, they strive to deconstruct meanings of purity. By irreverently toppling over the occidental references of the bright white light of Knowledge and Wisdom, into a halo of the Invisible and the Nothing, he astutely questions the conditions of seeing.
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