“DON’T CAPTURE, CREATE!” As a self-taught photographer, Christoffer Relander experiments with exposure, camera movement and other effects that could give the painterly feel to an image. While shooting, Relander is guided by two basic principles of his art – “Don’t capture – create” and “If it looks wrong, it is wrong”. He mainly combines and […]
THE ANIMAL GESTURE Stiina Saaristo: “I use myself in my art. Analyzing my own feelings, shame, and painful experiences, I rework them into paintings. My images are self-portraits, painted and reanimated with the help of a mirror. They are also investigations of value and beauty prevailing in our society. My characters address issues of sex […]