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ART CENTER AHJO, HIILI -SPACE: VIRPI ERONEN

VIRPI ERONEN
MIMIK -feel the connection
23.10. -10.11.2024, HIILI -SPACE

"Feelings play a major role in this photo project: identifying the emotional state of a photographed, painted or painting and creating an emotional connection between times and personalities."

Virpi Eronen, a multi-artist from Viinijärvi, has taken double photographs since 2020, of which there are now 219. At first, she photographed old paintings of red-haired women and herself in the same atmosphere. Filming takes place with the tools and equipment that can be found at home. Classics such as Da Vinci, Edelfelt, Van Gogh, Schjerfbeck, Picasso and Gallen-Kallela have been given the atmosphere of the 21st century in Virpi's hands.

Virpi does the whole process alone. She has also collaborated with contemporary artists such as the Syrian Anas Albraehe, the Ukrainian Taras Loboda and the Finnish naïve artist Pirkko Pullinen-Valtonen. Some of the shots are serious and some are made more with a twinkle in the corner of the eye, but all aiming for a strong feeling. Virpi has also taken double photos of himself alongside big megastars: they have been paired with e.g. Bob Dylan, Yoko Ono, Marilyn, Janis Joplin, 007, Justiina and Severi Suhonen.

The most important thing in the descriptions and pictures has been to get a strong connection between the work and the Photographer's emotional states and through that to find and recognize and also accept one's own lost emotions.

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