VATANEN Niina

Time Atlas

Finland

2020

In her series “Time Atlas”, Niina Vatanen intertwines images from various sources: personal archives, some of them intimate, images collected from the internet, excerpts from encyclopaedias, newspapers, guides or manuals. Pursuing a visual and intuitive logic, the artist combines various materials to create surprising connections. Drawing inspiration from encyclopaedias, she organises her images by thematic categories, with a particular focus on questions of time and our perception of it. Through pictures, she explores how our visual memory, our personal experiences and history combine.

 

With the support of Institut Finlandais

About the artist

Niina Vatanen (b. 1977) is a Finnish visual artist working with photographs, text, sound and found material. Vatanen graduated with a Master’s degree from the Department of Photography at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki in 2008. Niina Vatanen has published two books with Kehrer Verlag: A Room’s Memory / Huoneen muisti (2013) and Archive Play (2014).