You can never stop talking about the motives and necessity of the new generation of photographers. This is also the case with the Spanish photographer Andrés Gallego and the Finnish Svante Gullichsen. In the duo exhibition 'Tender Moments' at Galerie Helder, each one shows his own characteristic form, in which photography is more than just capturing reality. The realism and figuration always reveal a variegated imagination.
Andrés Gallego (ES, 1983) is fascinated by the work of the American painter Edward Hopper (USA, 1882-1967). Just as that painter found support in the spatial structures he photographed, this photographer finds support in the sets he fabricated and painted himself. And in the same vein of Hopper's painting, Gallego's photography makes you waver what you see.
Svante Gullichsen (FI, 1994) uses photography for a personal challenge with the elements. The landscape is used to unravel his search for the ‘mystery’ of being human. Alone or with additional models he figures in the surroundings of the Finnish Porvoo archipelago. Nature and man become one, creating peace and harmony. His works are in fact the result of a performance in often extreme circumstances.
'Tender Moments' is a journey of discovery into life that otherwise remains hidden. Photography can stretch personal stories and needs of people, with all their feelings and limitations, into universal values.