Hertta Kiiski

I was an apple and I got peeled – but it was a good thing is a sevenyear play with and for the camera. The photo series juxtaposes private life with art history and different genres of photography. It talks about the most banal of subjects: time and the experience of it. The series is about the ontology of materials and everyday objects as well as one´s relationship to a camera. Everything makes sense – not necessarily in a way that can be verbalized, but according to some secret internal logic that unravels very slowly and never entirely. The protagonists of the book are her daughters and the surroundings.
Hertta Kiiski is an artist working with photography, moving image, and installation. Her images deal with the kind of haptic visuality where eyes operate like the sense of touch – she materializes the gaze. She holds an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Hertta Kiiski lives and works in Turku, Finland.