Ville Kumpulainen (s.1988) living and working in Helsinki. He holds an BA in photography from Turku Arts Academy, Finland and Currently studying his MA in photography at Aalto University of Arts and Design, Helsinki Finland. Her works was included in several group exhibitions among other Dark room, present in Finnish Museum of Photography in 2015 and private exhibition Titanik gallery 2016.
In the work of Ville Kumpulainen we can hear an echo from the past not clearly explained. In his artistic approach archival material is not a tool for tell a linear story, but a process of deconstruction. The deconstruction of a memory.
As he states:
"I use archive material in my work to enable a conversation with the past, but at the same time a void between the past and the present becomes felt. I’m interested in imagining the rather mythical moment when the memories connected to images or objects originally take place and a fracture in time begins, turning living events into relics. Since the past itself remains forever out of sight, the material relics become immersed with mystery.
By cutting and reassembling old photographs and objects I initiate processes of deconstruction and rewriting in order to work against my experience of discontinuity. In these evocative processes – connected to the logic of metaphor – fragments of the past become enriched with new possibilities of meaning suggesting imaginative events and memories.
I use photo albums, diaries and other objects belonging to my family that are dated between 1930 and 1988 mixed with my own photographs taken between 1996-2015."