I Was An Apple And I Got Peeled But It Was A Good Thing
Hertta Kiiski
Kehrer Verlag
Hardcover
160 pages
165 x 240 mm
2021
ISBN 9783868287264
I was an apple and I got peeled – but it was a good thing is a sevenyear play with and for the camera. The protagonists of the book are Kiiski’s daughters and the intimate surroundings at home, summer houses and residencies from Finnish archipelago to Venice. The photo series juxtaposes private life with art history and different genres of photography. It talks about the most banal of subjects: time and the experience of it. The series is about the ontology of materials and everyday objects as well as one’s relationship to a camera. Everything makes sense – not necessarily in a way that can be verbalized, but according to some secret internal logic that unravels very slowly and never entirely.
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About The Artist
Hertta Kiiski is an artist working with photography, moving image, objects, space, and oftentimes with her own daughters. She holds a B.A. in photography from Turku Arts Academy and an M.A. in timebased arts from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is part of several public art collections. Hertta Kiiski lives and works in Turku, Finland. I was an apple and I got peeled – but it was a good thing is her second book after Archive Play with Niina Vatanen.
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About the Publisher
Kehrer Verlag is among the world’s leading publishers of photo books. Founded in 1995 by Klaus Kehrer, it is also one of the few independent publishing houses in Germany. In addition to photography, further focal points include contemporary art, art of the 17th through the 20th centuries, and international sound art. Over the years, numerous Kehrer publications have been nominated for and honoured with international book awards. From 2011 through 2016, Kehrer was also the German partner of the European Publishers Award for Photography (EPAP), an initiative launched by European publishing houses to promote contemporary photography.
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