Ed. 5 + 2AP, 138 x 183 cm / 54.3 x 72 in
The Meadow series is photographed in different European locations: left over spaces in between housing in villages and on the outskirts of small towns, where nature has been allowed to flourish undisturbed.
‘I found these places by wandering around and observing, stopping and looking very closely. The Meadow is like a miniature landscape, especially in contrast to the Forests I have been photographing in recent years. In Finland the idea of an urban meadow is still quite new but in Germany, where many of these works were photographed, there has been a clear shift to leaving the lawn mower aside to create natural habitats for bees and pollinators.
The works are also about the picture itself, where light and colours make up an image on the edge of visibility. The pictures are layered, allowing the surface to become further abstracted. The result is a resonating image that moves in the summer light.’ (Sandra Kantanen, June 2023)
Sandra Kantanen (born 1974, Helsinki, Finland) trained in photography at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki and later at the Central Academy of Art, Beijing, where she studied painting. Her photographs depict a natural world in metamorphosis. In her practice photography and painting unite to continually destabilise the eye. By mastering light’s most subtle photographic qualities and blending in alternative digital processes, she creates images that perfectly balance a meticulously crafted chaos of colour, distorting, blurring and brushing.
