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THE LOVELIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD -EXHIBITIONS:
The Loveliest Girl In The World
-exhibition
at Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, until midsummer
22.6.2008
The exhibition series The Loveliest Girl In The World will be seen in
Turku, at Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art from 18th April 2008
to 22th June 2008. The exhibition presents 90 pieces of this 140 piece
series. The exhibition space is built into a comprehensive art work, in
where the visitors can go deeply into the touching world of the
exhibition and into the stories behind it. Also a TV document The
Loveliest Girl In The World uncovers the exhibition for its part. The
photographs are shot in authentic places, in different conditions and
all around Finland. Each one of the ten
girls has a series of her own which contains pictures from photo
sessions from different years. The series is a study of natural light
and has been photographed with long shutter speeds without fill-in
light. This supports the concentrated atmosphere and also the fictive
visual world in the pictures. The pictures of the series are
photographed on film, and it’s
exhibition works are chromogenic colour prints, which are made in
darkroom.
The Loveliest Girl In The World is a loved joint art project by
photographer Miina Savolainen and then young women who have grown up in
Helsinki-based Hyvönen Children’s Home. The photographs are shot
during ten years. It is a growth story about becoming visible. The
series follows the girls’ growth from children into young adults. The
project was realized using the method of empowering photography, and it
has had deep mending value. Accepting a self portrait is a metaphor for
accepting the self. In empowering photography, both the power of the
photographer and the mythic truth of a photo are turned into an
individual’s subjective right to define himself. The pictures are
composed and realized together with the girls.
In these fairytale-like photos of The Loveliest Girl In The World the
maltreated adolescents have been able to see themselves as whole and
strong. The archetypal pictures the nature in its greatness is seen as
a patron of a wounded child. The message of the project is that
everyone is entitled to see themselves as valuable and beloved.
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