"Silence", FreshFaced+WildEyed, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK, 2014
"Silence", FreshFaced+WildEyed, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK, 2014
"Ornithology of Extinction", Revitalisation, Galleria Valo, Arktikum Museum & Science Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2021
Mummola / Granny's, Art is Something Much More Dangerous, The Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable, UK, 2018
"Ephemeral Paintings", Young Arctic Artists, Galleria Napa, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2021
"Ephemeral Paintings", Young Arctic Artists, Galleria Napa, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2021
Horizons, Korundi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2023
Horizons, Tornio City Library, Tornio, Finland, 2023
Hallaa - Kaunein maisema mitä ei ole olemassa, Savukoski Municipal Hall, Savukoski, 2024
Hallaa - Kaunein maisema mitä ei ole olemassa, Savukoski Municipal Hall, Savukoski, 2024
"Untitled (Winter Study 4)", DER GREIF A Process 2.0, Krakow Photo Month, Krakow, Poland, 2016
"Untitled (Winter Study 4)", DER GREIF A Process 2.0, Krakow Photo Month, Krakow, Poland, 2016
ARTIST STATEMENT
Henna Mattila's art investigates the relationship between memory and landscape, and the aesthetics of landscape and nature. Combining the analogue techniques of photomontage with digital printing processes and painting methods, the images depict fragmented landscapes creating a sense of melancholia. The work questions how identity is created through an individual's surroundings, through the separation from, and then return back to familiar environments that,
"seem different and yet somehow the same".
"seem different and yet somehow the same".
Besides using experimental painting approaches, the artworks have been created combining landscape and nature photography, creating the aesthetics of exploring the personal nostalgic experience of returning to the landscapes of significant personal attachment. The images are without human element but evoke the feeling of a lone presence.
The pictures are an attempt to visualise the landscapes as places to visit without destination when exploring the definition of self, while having sharpening perception towards one's surroundings. The images are a celebration of the beauty found in the silent details of nature and changes of colour, light and season. The several series of images are individual chapters of separate visual approaches to the same questions of identity, aimless wanders in nature and how one exists in relationship to their surroundings and to themselves.