Resonance

Landscape is witnessed as a space but experienced in time. These images are relating the expanding and contracting time of stories and myths, paced by the footsteps of the witness, to the mechanical time: precise exposure times of the camera and immediacy of the digital image creation. They are experimenting with ways of leaving gaps and empty spaces in the landscape image where dreams, memories and thought can reside. The images created in Scotland, New Zealand and Hawaii are not of things unseen. The photographer has stood where others have been, just in a different time.

Exhibition consists of two series: Recurrence and Barren Lands, which have in parts previously been on show in Charles H. Scott gallery in Vancouver, Canada and in White Space gallery in Edinburghissa, Skotland

Minttu Maari Mäntynen (1975) is a Finnish photographer and filmmaker based in Scotland. She studied photography in Edinburgh and completed her MFA in Visual Arts in Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. She has worked as an artist, graphic designer, cinematographer and a yoga teacher. Her personal work in lens-based media is about the stories we tell about our roots and memories, the collections we gather, the ways we organise our thoughts and stories in order to make sense of our experience.

Minttu Maari Mäntynen's exhibtion is in the tile and cellar galleries at Laterna from August 16th until September 14th 2019. Exhibition opening on Night of the Arts, August 15th 2019 from 5-7 PM. Welcome!

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