Slideshow "Sacred bird" AQUI Aqui deixo alguns excertos do texto da curadora Dominique Somers, por ocasião da sua exposição no Photomuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Belgica.
«Telling the story of a young man - the author himself - and his attempts to fly with different kinds of self-made aeroplanes and wings, the photographer presents a fictional narrative based on autobiographical facts. Lehtinen - the son of a renowned glider pilot - tries to relive the experiences of his father while himself attempting to leave the ground behind. (...) While the models he conceives are extravagant, surreal and impressive in their construction, they are nevertheless destined to fail, and remain purposeless, anachronistic reinventions of the human-powered prototypes which marked the pioneering days of aviation. (...) The absurdity of his attempt is even more striking when set against the romantic and heroic landscapes in which he stages his performances. Reminiscent of eighteenth-century sublime scenery paintings, these harsh, deserted environments seem to draw the character inexorably down to the ground, rather than to inspire take-off, as if to stress the earth-bound restraints of human nature. It is as if Lehtinen is performing a comic and short-lived act towards the landscape in an effort to bridge the gap between nature and technology, or even between the pictorial and the photographic discourse.»
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