Individual Residencies
2021 | Päivi Setälä
Words, photos, and history.
I work with photography and texts. I am interested in the details and the views. Works are created by experimenting with and combining various imaging techniques, photographic techniques and finishing techniques for photography.
I use both fast and slow photography processes. My subjects are animals, deserted spaces, sign-language gestures, flower dresses and greenhouses. The photographic in my pictures is about natural light and staged natural influences. The pictures have built-in images and are uncontrolled.
My texts are lyric essays, short stories, and multimedia poems. While in residence I looked for a focus on writing in a historic setting. The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s context that ‘stimulates people to take time in which to generate thoughts, feelings and ideas’, was for me the best possible place for this.
Nature, a historic region and events, together.