ANNI LEPPALA
2011-04-25Leppala’s images belong to a space that lies in between the visually perceptible world and a kind of mythical zone behind it. Her scenarios allow us a mere glimpse of events. By focusing on a single detail or gesture, she opens up her pictures to the viewer’s own interpretation.
Figures are shown in undefined interiors, their faces turned away and hidden behind their own hands or masks, mysterious in their inwardly directed, reserved aura. At times, they can hardly be discerned behind dense fields of wheat or bushes, while at other times they are lost in the light and shadow of infinite forests. The stillness and melancholy unique to the north is articulated in many of Leppälä’s nature photographs.
Opposite – Garden, 2007
Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2011
Barbara Gross Galerie
Theresienstrasse 56 Hof 1
80333 München
Germany
