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
76,2 x 101,6 cm
Chromaluxe
2022
Like Engrams (Never Done That)
30 x 40 cm
inkjet, aluminium Dibond
2022
The Escapee
59 x 74 cm
inkjet, aluminium Dibond
2022
A Carrier Box For Words (Never Been There)
30 x 45 cm
inkjet, aluminium dibond
2022
An Empty Page
30 x 45 cm
inkjet, aluminium Dibond
2022
Folded Objects
20 x 27,5 cm
inkjet, aluminium Dibond
2022