Muodonmuutoksia

Lauri Eriksson (b. 1965) has spent the past few years unravelling and transforming autobiographical events and layers of his daily experience into textual and photographic compositions. His self-portraits, landscapes and fleeting impressions evince a sense of collective yearning expressed through shifting interactions between self and context. His photographs and texts are interwoven in rhizomal tapestries of words, things, places, materialities and social dimensions that capture the complex interactions of modern existence. All things exist in a constant state of transition: individuals, social relations, cities and natural formations are all incessantly evolving, each at its own pace, following its own unique path and stages of metamorphosis. Change is ultimately about becoming.

This book accompanies Muodonmuutoksia (Metamorphoses), Lauri Eriksson’s solo exhibition opening at the Emil Aaltonen Museum in September 2024. The book contains a selection of Eriksson’s photographs and text fragments along with two essays, one authored by Eriksson himself and the other by photographic artist Joel Karppanen.

Lauri Eriksson has held exhibitions both in Finland and internationally. Muodonmuutoksia is his fifth photographic publication. His previous book was published by Parvs in 2021. Muodonmuutoksia features Eriksson’s recent photographs along with previously unpublished archival material.