Aapo Huhta, Gravity

Gravity

Aapo Huhta

Publisher
Kult Books
Year
2023
ISBN
978-91-987606-7-5
Specifications
Embossed double-folded softcover
Pamphlet stitch binding
22.5 x 27.5 cm
56 pages
Monotone and tritone offset printing
First edition of 500 copies
Designed by Heikki Kaski and Aapo Huhta
Shortlisted for the Rencontres d'Arles Book Award 2024
The Most Beautiful Books 2023 award (Finland)

Gravity presents a collection of black and white studio portraits of human figures and shapes combined with imagery of mummified remains from late 16th-century Sicily. In these gently surreal scenes, human bodies float, enveloped in grainy textures from chemical residues and light leaks. By photographing and rephotographing through transparent and reflective objects, Huhta transforms the figures into contorted human-like creatures. He also manipulates the interaction of film, developer, and overly expired photographic paper by hand and re-establishes the unpredictability into a process that is commonly sought to be controlled. The catalyst for the work was a change in identity that happened after becoming a parent. The result is a subjective interpretation of the complexity and fragility of human life and an intuitive response toward the unknown.

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