FLEETING is the name of my book published earlier this year. The name refers to the temporality of everyday occurrences, fading memories and the swiftness of time passing us by. FLEETING, the exhibition, re-presents FLEETING, the book. The show reproduces and contextualises the book, assuming the role of a catalogue with illustrations and essays. With this dual format, FLEETING questions the idea of an original in photography as an artistic practice. The position of original artwork in relation to its reproduction reflects the problem of a real life original reproduced in a photograph. Because is it, really — and, muddled by memory, which is which?
Tuukka Kaila is a photographer based in Helsinki. His recent works deal with everyday occurrences, the lucid nature of time and the role and capacity of photography as its captor and transformer. FLEETING, published by the Estonian imprint Lugemik, is Kaila’s second book.
The work in this exhibition has received support from Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region, The National Council for Photographic Art of Finland, FRAME and Lugemik.
