Tuure Leppänen

The Other Actor

In the series The Other Actor (2019–) a camera’s technical capability is examined and used to appropriate and adapt the documentary character of photography. By gathering light over long periods of time, night-time scenes of solitary places are illuminated by electrical lights over a distance, pointing out human agency outside the image’s frame and exposing movement and colour otherwise invisible to the eye.

The resulting photographs are installed as transparencies in light boxes, in a way becoming sensitive to the site of exhibiting. As the ambient light of the exhibiting space changes, the photographs’ presence and relation to their surroundings change too.

Differently Still I

102 x 91 x 16,4 cm

transparency in light box

2020

A View to an Intersection

67 x 58 x 16 cm

transparency in light box

2020

A Two-Mile Circle

100 x 89 x 14 cm

transparency in light box

2020

Differently Still II

45 x 30 cm

transparency, aluminium, nuts and bolts

2021

A Rotation of 4320 Degrees

67 x 58 x 16 cm

transparency in light box

2020

Differently Still III

20 x 16 cm

Inkjet print, aluminium Dibond

2021