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Vincent Fournier Chamber of Deputies [annex IX] #2, Brasília on display at the Metropolitian Museum. 

This intimate photograph by French artist Vincent Fournier portrays the interior of the Annex of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia, one of many iconic buildings in a city almost entirely designed by the country’s great architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012). Despite being taken almost fifty years after the building’s completion, the image is ambiguous in its age. It is this careful control of light that enables the viewer to recognize the many different textures that correspond to the different materiality. The light, the choreographic location of the body, and the shooting point produce a perfectly balanced image that enacts a hyperreality closer to a stage set-up. The artist offers a human dimension as a foil to the urban-scale modernist event of Niemeyer’s Brasilia; a little and lonely human presence in an architecture so grand.

Part of the series “Brasilia” is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (text available on the MET website) and the LVMH collection in Paris. ”

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Momentum is excited to annouce that it will exhIbit at Zona Maco Foto 2024. Feb 7th-11th 2024 at Centro Citibanamex Av. del Conscripto 311, Lomas de Sotelo, Mexico City. The exhbition will feature work from Finnish artist Aapo Huhta and Holly Lynton USA. The fair is conceived as an encounter with the photographic medium, exploring the possibilities offered by new tools and significant historical landmarks in the field. ZⓈONAMACO FOTO serves as a platform where the documentary genre, collective artistic creation, interdisciplinary collaborations, and discursive exercises converge, reflecting the evolving narratives of human thought and the surrounding reality.

Aapo Huhta (born in 1985) is a photographic artist living in Helsinki. Huhta combines elements of documentary practice and experimental darkroom techniques with subjective observations of everyday life. This approach results in a collection of enigmatic and often fragmented narratives, which have been praised for their ability to transform the mundane into the captivating. Exploring different forms of photographic narratives, methods, and possibilities plays a significant role in his work. The exploration has culminated in three photobooks, Block (Kehrer Verlag, 2015), Omatandangole (Kehrer Verlag, 2019) and Gravity (Kult Books, 2023).

In 2014, Magnum Photos selected Huhta as one of the Top 30 Under 30 photographers. He received the award of the Young Nordic Photographer of the Year, by Fotografiska Stockholm, in 2015 and was chosen for the Joop Swart Masterclass in 2016. He was named Young Artist of the Year 2020 in Finland. Huhta is currently funded by a three-year Finnish state artist grant.

Besides his own artistic practice, Huhta also teaches photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki and Lahti Institute of Arts and Design since 2015.

Huhta’s work has been exhibited in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Poland, Israel, Italy, and Hungary. His works are held in public and private collections in Norway, Sweden, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, and Fin- land.

Publications:

Block (Kehrer Verlag, 2015) Omatandangole (Kehrer Verlag, 2019 Gravity (Kult Books, 2023)

Phillips Auction London will feature the work of Ole Marius Jorgensen. Work featured will be the " The Brave one 2017 from No superhero. 

Paris Photo is the largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November in the heart of Paris. Since 1997, the fair’s mission is to promote and nurture photographic creation and the galleries, publishers and artists at its source.

Momentum will exhbit online at Paris Photo viewing rooms. 

This years room will feature the work of Ole Marius Joergensen (Norway) Vincent Fournier (France) & Chou Ching hui (Taiwan) 

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Kosmic memories" reveals extraordinary architectures, veritable totems of civilization of the future erected as so many signs of a possible elsewhere. It is not by chance that this science fiction universe was born between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1980s, especially in the satellite and non-aligned countries of the former Russia. First of all, the obsession with the cosmos is an old tropism of the Russian imagination (Tsiolkovsky, Sputnik, Gagarin...) and with the rapprochement of the West, artistic creation frees itself from political dogmas. If all these buildings have different functions, commemorative, political, institutional, their forms testify to the same breath: the invention of a future imbued with science fiction. We can see flying saucers, space stations and a multitude of geometrical shapes from another planet. Built mostly in concrete and at the tops of stellar landscapes, a telluric power from elsewhere emerges from these monumental architectures. Their location, while often a place of memory, also coincides with dawn or dusk, with a lateral light that reinforces their strangeness. Brutalist, futuristic, utopian, mystical, esoteric beauty... between Tintin's 'Temple of the Sun' and the monolith from '2001, Space Odyssey', these sentinels embody the dream of a future that is always to come.

Initiated by a wish to break away from controlled predefined photography I employed a distinct technique by transferring Polaroids onto Watercolor paper and a conscious dividing of the photo into multiple fields. The new take on photography let to the unique expression seen in Limit To Your Love series. I have most recently developed this series into a further exploration, using old-fashioned glass plate techniques

Movement is a series which combines a strong aesthetical point of view with meticulous attention to technical detail. As the title indicates, the series is concerned with giving shape to temporal and spatial aspects inherent in all visual experience.

Transfer series are polaroids transferred onto watercolour paper. Through this technique a particularly atmospheric and dreamy mood arises. Upon closer inspection, however, the eye begins to decode that in these works there are real places depicted, all with their special characteristics. 

Momentum is excited to exhbit at the inaugural Paris Photo NYC 2020. 

Paris Photo, the world’s largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium, is happy to announce the launch of Paris Photo New York April 2-5, 2020.

Presented with the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), the new fair will create a transatlantic hub between the two historic centers for photography – Paris and New York thus forming a collective voice and international reference for the photographic medium.

The new fair will capitalize on the strength of the American photography market by expanding and diversifying the fair’s representation of international and cutting-edge galleries and invigorating the community of curators and art professionals throughout the Americas and beyond.