Ville Lenkkeri Bücher

Early in his career, Ville Lenkkeri studied film, and film remains a strong influence. In one series titled Movies, the young Helsinki School photographer (born in 1972) investigated the relationship between cinema and photography; his latest, The World As We Know It, employs a cinematic strategy. Here, he photographs paintings and scenes-within-a-scene, from murals in waiting rooms to three-dimensional dioramas in natural science museums, trompe-l'oeil art in settings he describes as "public places to which people do not have intimate relationships, but still a relationship...often the people in pictures have worked in these places for a long time." The presence of such a figure, a museum guard or a visitor, heightens the ambivalence the artist is looking for, keeping readers in the disturbing, unfocused zone between reality and fiction.

"If the strength of Finnish photography is in gathering together irony, skillful craftsmanship, humor and reflection on media, then it has found one of its most talented representatives in Ville Lenkkeri," says "PHOTO International." This volume collects new work by the Helsinki School photographer, set in the deserted Russian mining town, Spitzbergen.

"Medical Records of a Small Town is a study of an eccentric man: For the son, the artist Ville Lenkkeri (*1972), he is a dad, quite impossible to access.For the people in the small town deep in the Finnish woods he is a doctor in good reputation, always at service and known to be funny in a morbid manner.He is one of the last of that kind. For over thirty-five years he received the town folks and filled a large cabinet with their ailment records. He passed away on Sunday, after accomplishing his work on Friday.The publication tells the story of this man not only with photographs but also with stories of the inhabitants and writings of this eccentric.Ville Lenkkeri created a very personal homage to his father.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Pikkukaupunin sairaskertomus / Medical Records of a Small Town at Museum Gustaf, Serlachius museum, M�ntt�, Finland (17 June 2017-24 February 2018).English and Finnish text."

"The Petrified Forest" is a set of photographs and texts that reflect the memories and mental images Ville Lenkkeri has of the little town in the Finnish woods where he grew up. The photographs are stages but they spring from the emotions and memories that he has and which cause him to still call the place his hometown today. The short texts in the book represent missing pictures in the series and they deepen the understanding of the given situations and thus guide the viewer. The publication "deals not only with subjective memories and growing up in an industrial small town, but also with the structure of truth and nature of representation - a strong link to Lenkkeri's earlier work. The book is the artist's fourth monograph."--Publisher website.

“Existence Doubtful” versammelt Fotografien von der Antarktis und Tierra del Fuego. Der begleitende Essay nutzt die physische Reise als Rahmen, um Themen wie Humanismus, Kolonialismus, Gier und Repräsentation sowie die Möglichkeiten der Fotografie zu verhandeln. Das Buch feiert Begebenheiten und Ereignisse zweifelhafter Natur wie Illusionen und Unsicherheiten, die die auf Realität basierende Weltordnung ins Wanken bringen, und bewahrt uns vor dem Erwartbaren, vor allzuviel Sicherheit und Kontrolle.

Katalog zur Ausstellung „movies“ - Fotografien von Ville Lekkeri, Finnland, vom 7. Juli bis 14. August 2004.