hyle | curtain | backdrop, Anni Leppälä

Anni Leppälä’s motives derive from memories, loss, longing, and early adolescence, seeking for an experience of connection and closeness but also for the act of recognizing something vaguely familiar through the images. Things are often veiled, hidden or turning away, but are in their own sphere of intense, remote closeness. Photographs transform their subjects and evoke a feeling of sudden recognition, that is not visible on the surface. The connections between the images are essential for Anni Leppälä’s work. The narrations are not linear but can proceed to various directions and dimensions. The layout of the book refers to this way of working –images are overlapping each other, covering and intersecting with each other.

Shortlist Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2020

Anni Leppälä (b.1981) lives and works in Helsinki. She studied photography at the Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences (BA) and at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki (MA). Her works has been exhibited internationally since 2006, including group exhibitions at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan (2006), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany (2009), Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid (2011), Les Rencontres d ́Arles in France (2012) and Scandinavia House in New York (2013). In 2010, she was awarded the Finnish Young Artist of the Year art award and Tampere Art Museum presented the first comprehensive museum exhibition of her work and published a book of her photographs.

Anni Leppälä ́s works have been published in three monograph books, latest in the artist book “hyle | curtain | backdrop” by Kehrer Verlag in the autumn 2019.

Artist: Anni Leppälä

Design: Anni Leppälä, Tuomo Rainio, Liisa Seppo

Softcover

16,5 x 24 cm

128 pages

71 color illustrations

ISBN 978-3-86828-942-8

Kehrer Verlag, 2019