State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography ROSPHOTO
Ministry for Culture of the Russian Federation
under support of the Consulate General of Finland in Saint-Petersburg,
the Finnish Fund FRAME

Hannes Heikura. ZONE

20.02.2014 — 06.04.2014

Opening: 19th of February 2014 at 18.00

Yard building exhibition hall, 2nd floor

ROSPHOTO presents the exhibition of the well-known Finnish artist Hannes Heikura ZONE. The project includes two series Dark Zone and We Walk Alone, photographed in 2010-2012.

In the exhibition ZONE Hannes Heikura leads the viewers to the boundaries of light and darkness, to the ultimate core of photography – the depiction of light.

The metropolis photographed by Heikura is a landscape of the mind undefined on both time and space. It’s a non-place with overtones of film-noir and Sin City, an immaterial state of mind, where light and shade engage in an endless dance continuously redefining their mutual relationships.

ZONE is a story of today’s world of light and shadow, marked by the photographer’s strong artistic vision.

Actuality, the relationships of photography with reality, has always been important for the Finnish photographer Hannes Heikura. Photography must tell of life here and now, and yet it must be something more – the photographer’s bold interpretation of reality.

In ZONE Hannes Heikura carries on his urban wandering as a portrayer of magical realism. He has started from light and shadow to come to realize the solitude of human mind. All things that are strange are also of value, for they entail endless interpretation. A strange image is an enigma that will not leave a viewer alone.

Hannes Heikura (born 1958) is a renown photojournalist, the author of several publications and solo exhibitions, currently working in Helsinki, Finland. He has been awarded with numerous national prizes in the professional field. In recent years, he has concentrated on broader thematic entities. In these contexts in particular he has become known for his minimalist and dramatic style of narration.