Tuukka Kaila’s (FI/EE, b. 1975) artistic practice spans photography, text, sound and publishing, whilst his work engages questions of abstraction, duration and contextual shifts. Kaila divides his time between a studio and publishing practice in Helsinki, and a professorship of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. He is also a co-founder of the Rooftop Press publishing initiative, first established in 2016.
Kaila’s works shown at Foto Tallinn are loosely based on a range of common assumptions about photographic representation and global knowledge supply chains. A silk screen work shows a glitchy 3D scan of a meteorite – allegedly originating from a 2018 impact in China’s Yunnan province, listed as Mangui on the Meteoritical Bulletin Database. The event is displayed on a smart phone screen as a .gif, named after the seller’s description of the meteorite on eBay.
Artist is presented by FOKU Gallery
