Anni Löppönen
“That queen butterfly hasn’t come to thank me yet for releasing it. ”
– Daughter Kielo, aged five.
“Time has come into the room.
I search for myself and my loved ones in the vanishing rooms of memory. I am a child, a young girl, a mother, a mother already lost to memory. All as a woman in the gaze of an image.
The child in the picture looks back,
Time moves and is piercingly dear and unreachable. The child masquerades, time masks itself in the weight of the image. The room and the place change.
The photograph frames time, drawing itself into shape.”
About the artist
The photographs of Anni Löppönen (1981) highlight the most central characteristic and strength of photography, the expression of the moment in time. The works take place in the blink of an eye, immersing themselves in the wonder of everyday life, in children’s play and the fragility of being a child. A mysticism emerges from everyday life. The images speak of the meaning of presence.
In 2025, Löppönen’s works will be on display at Mänttä Art Festival, Mikkeli Art Museum, and SFAC Gallery in San Francisco City Hall, USA.
