Aino Kannisto – [↑↖ ] Untitled {Launderette} (1999); [↑↗] Untitled {?} (20XX); [↖] Untitled {White Tub} (2008); [↗] Untitled {Stripey Curtains} (2013); [↙] Woman Washing Herself from Delicate Demons {collaboration with Satu Haavisto}; [↘] Woman on a Hospital Bed from Delicate Demons {collaboration with Satu Haavisto} (2014); [↓↙] Untitled {Shower II} (2000); [↓↘] Untitled {Bathtub} (2015)
Um… so… :::looks down at toe of boots and kicks clumsily at imaginary dirt::: this is like really, really, super, above-and-beyond, over-the-top phenomenal work.
Kannisto’s a member of The Helsinki School and fucking A, if you want to you yourself a jealousy aneurysm–go ahead and check that out. (It’s EXTREMELY rare to find a group with this much stellar work to their collective credit.)
Her use of color is more understated that Prue Stent–but understated color that still is integral to the work is actually incredibly difficult to manage.
Plus, I’m always gonna go gaga for any artist that is intimately familiar with both Uta Barth and Johannes Vermeer.
But what I think is most impressive about her work is how she fits so much narrative potential into such minimal and unadorned frames.
God, it is really unnerving to look at work that this incredible–because it’s a rare occasion and it’s happened maybe three times in the almost six years that I’ve been running this blog that I’ve seen indications that what I feel is important to photography as a form is something other artists are also tuned into/turned onto.
Thanks so much to @absolution-v, for his post featuring Kannisto–without it I’d probably have gone another five years without knowing about her. (Also, if you aren’t already, you should definitely check out Absolution-V’s blog–it’s offbeat and eccentric but I’m routinely introduced to work I’d otherwise miss.)
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