Reality in the Making photographs Added by MOA2006

Photo: Ville Lenkkeri

The series of photographs deals with my observation that our life in contemporary society alienates us from everything original and so we settle for the processed. My concern is that personal experience is being nullified and replaced with information learned secondarily. Thus we are potentially drifting away from the world and our reality is becoming something that is interpreted and produced through action rather than something that is by itself.
My treatment of the subject is not unequivocally critical but rather observant through interest. I aim to remind of the existence of the phenomenon through my pictures, not give unambiguous patterns of behaviour to uproot it. With the help of patterns we construct a more understandable image of an otherwise impossibly complex world. Subjective slices of reality that are distorted through choice become like self-portraits and thus recognisable creatures. Through our actions, the world adapts a form that resembles ourselves. The series of photographs presents different models and simulation that try to copy or possible even replace what?s real.

Ville Lenkkeri studied film at FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, from 1996?98, but later changed his orientation and medium to photography. Lenkkeri earned a Bachelor's degree in art photography at FAMU in 1998-2001 and a Master's at the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 2002-2006.
During his MA studies Lenkkeri has participated extensively in photographic and art exhibitions both in Finland and abroad. He has also held some solo shows.
Ville Lenkkeri's latest photographic series explores the increasing predominance of models and simulation in our experience of the world. The series, called Reality in the Making, is also his diploma work for the University of Art and Design Helsinki.

Contact:
vlenkkeri(at)uiah.fi
+358 50 347 4914