Jari Silomäki

Jari Silomäki

Silomäki is one of the most interesting photographer of the Helsinki School. The themes of alienation and failure are somehow present throughout his work.
'Ordinary towns on ordinary days’ is a  series on European towns where people, landscapes and buildings have been photographed using the aesthetics of war photography. The work appears a censure to the media using their own main tool.
Selected exhibitions: Arctic Hysteria, P.S.1, New York; Rehearsals for adulthood, Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest; Northern Photography Centre, Oulu, Finland; Aletheia, Helsinki Photography Festival,  Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland;   Arctic Hysteria, Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest; Rose Boréal, Photographies de l’École d’Helsinki; Ecole nationale des beaux-arts, Paris; Phenomena, Pori art museum, Pori; Fractures of life, Kiasma, Helsinki; Helsinki School, Kulturhuset, Stockholm

In his weather diaries, Jari Silomäki draws a parallel between everyday experiences and the alienating flood of news confronting us every day in the media. The series aims at showing that every moment is accompanied by both individual and collective events that on some level will be repeated, but on another level will remain unknown and unforeseeable.
Jari began My Weather Diary project in 2001 with a decision to take one photograph a day, every day of every year. The aim was to explore the boundary between subjectivity and objectivity, on the level of individual as well as collective memory. At the moment the series comprises more than 2,500 images. All his exhibitions on this theme have been different. Each image is coupled with a hand-written text in the style of a diary entry, recording very personal feelings, experiences or activities on the one hand, and universal, global events that have a historic impact, on the other.

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