Juha-Pekka Inkinen
Basic information
b. 1955, Helsinki
Photographer
Residence: Helsinki
Contact information
Email: jpinkinen@gmail.com
Artist’s Statement
I am known for my exhibitions presenting abandoned houses: Morality and Architecture 1,2 and 3. I have also published a book named Morality and architecture. The series Construct and the book, The Origin dealt spaces too. And in the forthcoming work How the Things Are, we go to visually dense rooms.
A space can be found behind everything, that you can see behind the power structures.
The main themes in my productions are time and the state of society. All my work touches on these topics in one way or another.I do not take it badly, if the viewer does not reach the thoughts behind my pictures and only enjoys the beauty of the work.The top layer should be dramaturgically believable and aesthetically intact. At that point the beauty of the picture penetrates the viewer's shield.
A space can be found behind everything, that you can see behind the power structures.
The main themes in my productions are time and the state of society. All my work touches on these topics in one way or another.I do not take it badly, if the viewer does not reach the thoughts behind my pictures and only enjoys the beauty of the work.The top layer should be dramaturgically believable and aesthetically intact. At that point the beauty of the picture penetrates the viewer's shield.
Current information
Bus stop chroniclesBook published 2021
The Way of Things- dissidents of interior design
Book published 2018
The concept of bringing out your own personality
in decorating has led to extraordinary
conformity. I have photographed
homes, that ooze in detail, with lots
of things, that are the peaks of abundance.
These types of exceptional interior designers
are a long way ahead of others when reaching
the judges of taste and salespeople. That kind
of freedom is not seen in interior design bloggers,
the media or the marketing world.
I am talking in this book about visual
abundance. I"m pondering what it is that has
brought about these choices, pieces, combinations?
The aesthetic eye is often certain
and at times, the search for maximum abundance
influences the end result. Often present
is the wish to protect and save, there is no
limit to the effort and time required to achieve
these ends. These kinds of homes are alternative
outposts in this rational and efficient
world. In these pictures interior design is
allowed to go wild to a baroque and surreal
extent.
In my opinion, it is noteworthy in
itself that these uncontrolled aspects happen.
These outposts are meaningful as they add
to diversity and they are memory storages that
create a connection to the past.
