Directors Lounge: Jari Haanperän - Spectres of Light
Friday, August 13th, 2010, 21h
Galerie Meinblau
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18/19
D-10119 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Jari Haanperän lives in Berlin and together with Mirka Flander, his producer, he is running the gallery Suomesta. With his installations, Jari Haanperän takes up and further develops the idea of the Light Space Modulator by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Although Jari's film works on the other hand appear very different to the abstract spirituality of Moholy-Nagy's light machine, the two constituting elements seem to be the constant source of inspiration for artist and filmmaker Haanperän: light and the spirited machine. However with Jari, these elements seem to evoke their opponents: darkness, which is needed for the effects of light, or lumen, and the darker forces.