The title of our exhibition refers to a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini, written in 1969. He always had a special connection with the region of Friuli and thus with Trieste, the adopted home of Finnish artist NIKO LUOMA (b 1970 in Helsinki). The poem describes the personal and professional freedom of action longed for by the protagonist, at the same time representing an ode to the present moment, without retrospection or anticipation.

Besides fve adaptations of famous masterworks from art history, in his fourth solo exhibition in our gallery, NIKO LUOMA presents his latest series, shown internationally for the frst time. These new works, entitled Pictures, are based on a brilliant but simple principle: a flm negative is exposed three or four times (in red, green, blue and yellow or orange), with the aid of an analogue camera, and developed. Then the scanned flm is digitally folded, according to an analogue template. The enlarged print, developed in the Diasec process, is the fnal result of an apparently simple process which is in fact highly complex: since the photo is not developed until the end of the process, the negative serves as a record of its own origin. Overlapping lines and colour felds give the impression of space. The artist also welcomes the participation of chance. As in his adaptations, it is the photographic process, "writing with light", that fascinates him. Since the start of his career, his interest has never been in what happens in front of the camera, but in what happens inside it. His working method is unique in the international art world; only the 1920s "new seeing" photographic experiments introduced by László Moholy-Nagy with his photograms, are comparable with NIKO LUOMAS's abstract visual language.

NIKO LUOMA