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ArchiveBorn 1975 in Parkano, Finland
Silomäki is one of the most interesting photographer of the Helsinki School. The themes of alienation and failure are somehow present throughout his work.
'Ordinary towns on ordinary days’ is a series on European towns where people, landscapes and buildings have been photographed using the aesthetics of war photography. The work appears a censure to the media using their own main tool.
Selected exhibitions: Arctic Hysteria, P.S.1, New York; Rehearsals for adulthood, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest; Northern Photography Centre, Oulu, Finland; Aletheia, Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Arctic Hysteria, Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest; Rose Boréal, Photographies de l’École d’Helsinki; Ecole nationale des beaux-arts, Paris; Phenomena, Pori art museum, Pori; Fractures of life, Kiasma, Helsinki; Helsinki School, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
 Jari Silomäki, 'personal warstories of an outsider'(detail), 2008, c-print, installation of 15 photos |
