Jari Silomäki
My Weather Diary 2001 - 2051
Dates + Events
Jari Silomäki | My Weather Diary 2001 - 2051
Friday, February 7 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Jari Silomäki
My Weather Diary 2001 - 2051
This February and March, Pictura Gallery is showing My Weather Diary by Finnish artist Jari Silomäki. Since 2001, Silomäki has made and catalogued one photograph for each day, starting with the idea that world events, personal events, and the weather will always repeat themselves.Silomäki examines our access to world news and the effect it can have on our emotional states. The series shares the artist’s private moments on any given day, and also a shared experience of history, despite our geographic locations.
My Weather Diary 2001 – ongoing (2051)
Since 2001, I have been taking a landscape photograph every day. I connect these photographs to important personal or world political events. These images link personal human relationships and terrorist attacks, bringing up children and genocide, the smell of coffee and the global economy. At present, My Weather Diary comprises thousands of photographs and constitutes a continuous process; hence, all the exhibitions on this topic have been different. The starting point of this work was that world events, personal events and weather will always repeat themselves and merge into one large continuum. Connecting landscapes with the news also concretizes how we are in contact with world events through the media. Everything is brought up close, which also means that events that are truly nearby are no longer close.
The My Weather Diary series has been shown at many exhibitions all over the world, including the 14th Biennale of Sydney (2004), the Belgrade Biennale (2006), the Seventh Biennial of African Photography in Bamako (2007), the MoMA PS1 in New York (2008), the independent curatorial space in St Petersburg, as part of the Manifesta 10 Festival (2014) and the D-Museum, Seoul (2018).
https://jarisilomaki.com
Jari Silomäki (1975) graduated from the Turku Academy of Arts’ photography program (BA) in 2001 and from the University of Art and Design (MA) in 2007. Silomäki was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Photography in 2017. Silomäki’s works have been exhibited in Finland and abroad. This includes an extensive solo exhibition at the Museum of Photography in Finland; Sydney Biennale, MCA Australia; MoMa P.S.1, New York and D– Museum, Seoul.
Jari Silomäki
My Weather Diary 2001 - 2051
This February and March, Pictura Gallery is showing My Weather Diary by Finnish artist Jari Silomäki. Since 2001, Silomäki has made and catalogued one photograph for each day, starting with the idea that world events, personal events, and the weather will always repeat themselves.Silomäki examines our access to world news and the effect it can have on our emotional states. The series shares the artist’s private moments on any given day, and also a shared experience of history, despite our geographic locations.
My Weather Diary 2001 – ongoing (2051)
Since 2001, I have been taking a landscape photograph every day. I connect these photographs to important personal or world political events. These images link personal human relationships and terrorist attacks, bringing up children and genocide, the smell of coffee and the global economy. At present, My Weather Diary comprises thousands of photographs and constitutes a continuous process; hence, all the exhibitions on this topic have been different. The starting point of this work was that world events, personal events and weather will always repeat themselves and merge into one large continuum. Connecting landscapes with the news also concretizes how we are in contact with world events through the media. Everything is brought up close, which also means that events that are truly nearby are no longer close.
The My Weather Diary series has been shown at many exhibitions all over the world, including the 14th Biennale of Sydney (2004), the Belgrade Biennale (2006), the Seventh Biennial of African Photography in Bamako (2007), the MoMA PS1 in New York (2008), the independent curatorial space in St Petersburg, as part of the Manifesta 10 Festival (2014) and the D-Museum, Seoul (2018).
https://jarisilomaki.com
Jari Silomäki (1975) graduated from the Turku Academy of Arts’ photography program (BA) in 2001 and from the University of Art and Design (MA) in 2007. Silomäki was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Photography in 2017. Silomäki’s works have been exhibited in Finland and abroad. This includes an extensive solo exhibition at the Museum of Photography in Finland; Sydney Biennale, MCA Australia; MoMa P.S.1, New York and D– Museum, Seoul.
Dates + Events
Jari Silomäki | My Weather Diary 2001 - 2051
Friday, February 7 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm
