About…Niittyvirta’s creative work contains a very strong dimension of improvisation and intuition. His extensive production does consist not only of the various photographic works but instead reaches out far beyond his main tool – the camera. The abstract glamour of the visual effects has been produced with the combination of the different digital methods and utilizing the knowledge of the digital, biological and chemical processes. This means that the outcome of the pictures is not based only on the traditional photographic conventions. Niittyvirta is also fascinated by the forces of the social circumstances. The series “Greetings from Helsinki” takes a socio-political aspect to social alienation with a dark humor. Works in the series “unDisciplined Events” explore the relationships of the scenery; the space and a human being – public and the private. The pictures bring into the focus the built-up environments and the effects that they have on our daily decisions and the activities of the different groups. *** Atlas
Series includes “abstract-like images”, which are difficult to intrepid by using traditional image codes. This working method creates a barrier between the gaze and the image. Thus questioning the way photographs are traditionally looked and perceived. As a result this method disturbs the reality we are used to see in photographs. My aim is to allow each photograph works as an individual entity, without The restrictions caused by serialization. In exhibition space conversations are formed between the images, which differ from the more traditional narrative approach. This is due to independent nature of each image. In my photographic approach, my interest continues beyond the camera. Some of my works, “Fallout” and “Ghost”, are created with utilization of different biological processes (photosynthesis etc.) “On contrary” works “Black Sheep” and “Unexpected end-of-file was encountered” are results of research of binary code of digital images and/or combining the with the human genome sequences. *** |
