Having spent large amounts of time in virtual surroundings, such as video games and internet chatrooms in his youth, Leppänen is interested in studying how memories and experiences created in those spaces affect life away from the keyboard. In the composed still-life images of the photo series Two Times for the First Time (2022–) real-world things are inserted into 3-D rendering software’s virtual space, while digital phenomena is introduced to the tactile world. The resulting interweaving of visual matter binds the two states of being together and makes a poetic suggestion: creating photographic documentation in virtual spaces might be a way of connecting fake matter into real memories.
The Shore Up
2022
76,2 x 101,6 cm
Chromaluxe
Like Engrams (Never Done That)
30 x 40 cm
archival pigment print
2022
The Escapee
2022
59 x 74 cm
archival pigment print
A Carrier Box For Words (Never Been There)
2022
30 x 45 cm
archival pigment print
An Empty Page
2022
30 x 45 cm
archival pigment print
Folded Objects
2022
20 x 27,5 cm
archival pigment print