Niko Luoma: Temporal Matter

Luoma was born in Helsinki in 1970 and began to create his unique photographs in the late 1990’s. The gallery will present Temporal Matter, a display of works created between 2006 and 2014, encompassing four major series of work, Cronos, Motives, Symmetrium and Variations On A Standard Of Space.

Luoma’s monumental works are highly unique, being visual records of their own creation, capturing both the scientific yet unexpected nature of photography. In essence, Luoma’s focus on the process of creating a photograph becomes the very content of his work. By using an analogue technique he exposes a negative to single lines of light hundreds and in some cases, thousands of times.

Luoma says of his works “My work is about reduction and repetition, layering ideas of systems and chance. Ultimately my core interest lies not in the front of the camera but inside of it where the exposure becomes a content.”