Ilkka Halso photographic installations of nature
Born in Orimattila, Finland 1965. Receive the Master of Arts, 1992, University of Art and Design in Helsinki (UIAH). From 1990 to1998 Ilkka has been working with subjects concerning scientific illustration and methods of natural history research.
With an attitude of a gaious scientist, without obligation of truth or results, Ilkka work has essentially been a small investigation of the visual world of science. This particular interest has turned to focus on the various relations between architecture/technology, photography and nature.
Restoration (2000)
This is an exhibition about man’s attempt to repair nature with the means of technology and science, an ironic visions of mans relation to nature and the confidence in technology to solving problems caused by their own activities.
Large color photographs show objects of nature (trees, rocks, fields) surrounded by scaffolding and covered with plastic. They are restoration of nature sites.
Scaffoldings and artificial lightning settings highlight and frame nature objects and detach them from everyday life context. The object of nature and construction site that surrounds it form together a colossal installation.
Museum of Nature (2004)
I visualize shelters, massive buildings where big ecosystems could be stored as they are found today, in the present.
These massive buildings protect forests, lakes and rivers from pollution and, more importantly, they protect nature from the actions of man himself.
At the same time, I study different aspects of man’s relation to nature as though a rare, unique and endangered place.
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