black trees
27 February – 29 march 2025
Santeri Tuori’s forthcoming solo exhibition at Purdy Hicks Gallery will present new works from his Forest and Sky series, together with two new groups of work, Black Trees, centred on London’s iconic plane trees and small-scale cloud studies, Cloud.
In the new small-scale series, Cloud, Tuori has photographed a single cloud moving across the sky, taking numerous shots over a short period of time. The ephemeral nature of the moment shimmers in the work, the light fades into immateriality, slips into blackness, and flashes into its opposite. The Clouds are displayed individually in drifting clusters, creating the impression that the images are dissolving into the sky.
Building on his distinctive layering technique, Tuori’s series entitled Black Trees, created during his recent residency with the Backroom Foundation in London, are made with two identical images – one printed on photographic paper and the other on delicate translucent Japanese paper. The loosely attached layers create a depth and dimensionality, conjuring with their performative quality the true grandeur of London planes with their majestic trunks and gestural branches. Appreciated for their resilience to urban conditions and pollution, London planes are a celebrated part of the city’s landscape.
Location
Pyrdy Hicks Gallery
25 Thurloe Street
London SW7 2LQ
Tuesday -Saturday 11 – 18
