Iivari Mikkonen

what does it mean to make images in a time when we see and produce so many of them every day?

In the work I combine documentary and staged images, forming constellations that obscure interpretations of photography. In the darkroom, I rework and manipulate images: printing, repeating, accepting that sometimes things go wrong. This process lets the images shift and change, whilst its anachronism contrasts how our relation towards images has changed during my lifetime. In order to react to a world that keeps changing at an accelerated rate the work becomes a symptom of its time. Taking shape in an erratic artistic framework (formed of equal parts philosophy, online culture and everyday mundanity) that shifts as I experience the world. I never fully document nor fully transform the everyday, but instead keep it in suspense, familiar yet estranged. Through this process, I position the image in motion with the world they occupy equally unfinished and constantly subject to reinterpretation.