Two ways to Carry a Cauliflower
Emma Sarpaniemi
Nominated by
Copenhagen Photo Festival
Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower by Emma Sarpaniemi is a performative photography series exploring women’s self portraiture through play. To free the subject from the male gaze, the character depicted in the images is portrayed playfully and tenderly as a woman who behaves, looks, and performs on her terms and rules. While playfulness can often be perceived as naivety in the context of female artistry, Sarpaniemi turns it into a resource, possibilities for new ways of being.
The starting point for self-portraits in the project is often an object or clothing found at a flea market, from which the artist begins to construct a photograph. Sarpaniemi selects the clothes, stages the scenes, photographs and designs the self-portraits herself. She is interested in using everyday objects in an unpredictable manner to create contradictions and alternative symbolic meanings within the photographs.
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The Artist
Emma Sarpaniemi
Nominated in
2024
By
Copenhagen Photo Festival
Lives and Works in
Helsinki
Emma Sarpaniemi is an artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Sarpaniemi graduated with BA inPhotography from The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK) in 2019. In her practice,Sarpaniemi explores the concept of femininity through humorous and performative self-portraits. Self-portraiture is a playground for Sarpaniemi where her aim is to shake up conventional notions of femininity.Sarpaniemi’s work has been exhibited in Finland and internationally including LesRencontres d’Arles festival, European Month of Photography Luxembourg festival, The FinnishMuseum of Photography, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, amongothers. Her work is in the public collections of The Finnish Museum of Photography, The FinnishState Art Deposit Collection, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Turku Art Museum, Museum Folkwang, ,Wihuri Foundation Collection, Heino Art Foundation, Miettinen Collection, and private collectionsin Finland, The Netherlands and Switzerland.
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