At The Heart Of It All

After my father’s slow withering by a hereditary heart condition, I became conscious of how it was affecting me as well, this inheritance of mine. Slowly coming to terms with my own mortality, a cognition that I had actively suppressed, resulted regressing back to my youth and manifesting my internal worlds by recreating, constructing and making them real. To create spaces that solely I inhabit and control, building places and spaces where time is in stasis, suspended between the Tick and Tock. At the Heart of it All is a study of the individual contemplating his own mortality, how one looks at his existence, at the same time seeing the beginning and sensing the inevitable end. What have been imagined in these drone lit nightscapes are Spaces within Spaces, where the remnants of humanity exist in the form of wrecks, ruins and absence. The works have been photographed in different locations around Europe during a five-year period. Images from the series At the Heart of it All have been exhibited in different galleries and museums around Europe and compiled into a book by Hatje Cantz Verlag. Petri Juntunen (1975, Sweden) is a Finnish photographic artist living and working in Helsinki and has studied photography and cinematography in the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.