Minna Rissanen travels in nature and in the areas between nature and the built environment, which are often ignored as self-evident and unimportant. She maps, collects and structures the matter of a place and considers what kind of hidden and imperceptible things, phenomena and levels of the manifestation of reality are hidden in a place and the experience of a place, as well as how the border between reality and the imagined is drawn.

Nature’s process, traces and remains, as well as time and temporal deposits are present in reflections and as objects of work. In the Hidden (x) exhibition at Taidehalli Häme, the viewer encounters passing and stopping, where the northern landscape escapes, fragments and transforms into memory traces. Hints and pieces form a poetic, dark-speaking body of work, which is accompanied by a feeling of loss and the fear of loss. The works have been completed during 2023 and 2024. The exhibition has been supported by the Art Promotion Center (Taike).

Minna Rissanen is a photo artist from Jaala, working in Kymenlaakso and Sami. She graduated as a visual artist (artist) from Lahti University of Applied Sciences in 1999 and from Saimaa University of Applied Sciences (artist) in 2015. She completed her specialization studies in media art at Lahti University of Applied Sciences in 2003.

In photographs and spatial entities based on photographs, Rissanen deals with the relationship between man and nature, the archeology of the place and temporal layers, as well as images associated with the north. Her production has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions. Rissanen is a member of the Association of Photographic Artists, Kouvola artists’ club and Kuvasto.

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