SoWeTo by Tuomo Manninen
at The Shack
Orlando West / Soweto
Jozi art:lab and the Finnish Embassy present the exhibition „SoWeTo“ by Finnish photographer Tuomo Manninen (b. 1962). In this series Manninen depicts the life of Soweto.
Soweto has a certain chilling ring in its name: one immediately tends to think of the uprisings, the necklacing and running demonstrators. The runners in the SoWeTo series have just finished a marathon; three gentlemen tee off at the Golf Country Club and a happy family poses at their Sunday picnic. The photos of Tuomo Manninen play with our perceptions and prejudices of this most famous South African township and reveal both: the familiar and the unexpected.
In his long career as a photographer , Tuomo Maninnen has previously investigated the lives of cities such as Helsinki, Kathmandu, Havana, Saigon and St. Petersburg in his series of group portraits called Me/We. His images display the codependency among individuals, but at the same time they move in between the contradictory relationship of documentation and dramatization. The Me/We series has been showcased e.g. at the Venice Biennale and the Arles Photography Festival in France.
The exhibition will also include works from his Helsinki series.
www.tuomomanninen.comSoWeTo installation view
on youtubeSoWeTo is sponsored by:
Frame FinlandDesign Capital of the World Helsinki 2012Patricia Seppälä Foundation........
Opening: 27th June, 2014 , 8 p.m.
27th June to 13th July 2014
open daily: 12 to 6 p.m.
Location:
The Shack
Corner Vilakazi Street / Baqwa Street
Orlando West, 1084
Soweto
