Sandra Kantanen, “Bamboo 1”, 2005 - Courtesy of the artist and PERSONS PROJECTS.
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Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light
04/07/2026 - 29/08/2026
PERSONS PROJECTS
Lindenstrasse 35
10969 Berlin
www.personsprojects.com
Persons Projects is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light, a solo exhibition by Finnish artist Sandra Kantanen, one of the leading figures of the Helsinki School. The exhibition brings together works that reflect Kantanen's long-standing fascination with idealized Asian landscapes. The show continues her search for environments threatened or already damaged by human activity, which she then reinterprets through her artistic intervention.
Inspired by classical Chinese shan shui painting and Japanese aesthetics, Kantanen creates photographic landscapes that exist between reality and imagination. Ever since her studies in Beijing in the early 2000s, the artist has explored Eastern philosophies that engage with nature not as something to conquer or merely document, but as a source of contemplation and spiritual reflection. Her photographs evoke idealized images shaped by memory, longing, and inner perception.
The exhibition title, Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light, reflects the quiet and meditative atmosphere that runs throughout Kantanen's work. In Asian art and philosophy, bamboo symbolizes resilience, humility, and spiritual calm. The fading light evokes impermanence, fragile memory, and the gradual disappearance of imagined, idealized natural settings. Together, the title creates a poetic space suspended between presence and loss, stillness and transformation.
04/07/2026 - 29/08/2026
PERSONS PROJECTS
Lindenstrasse 35
10969 Berlin
www.personsprojects.com
Persons Projects is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light, a solo exhibition by Finnish artist Sandra Kantanen, one of the leading figures of the Helsinki School. The exhibition brings together works that reflect Kantanen's long-standing fascination with idealized Asian landscapes. The show continues her search for environments threatened or already damaged by human activity, which she then reinterprets through her artistic intervention.
Inspired by classical Chinese shan shui painting and Japanese aesthetics, Kantanen creates photographic landscapes that exist between reality and imagination. Ever since her studies in Beijing in the early 2000s, the artist has explored Eastern philosophies that engage with nature not as something to conquer or merely document, but as a source of contemplation and spiritual reflection. Her photographs evoke idealized images shaped by memory, longing, and inner perception.
The exhibition title, Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light, reflects the quiet and meditative atmosphere that runs throughout Kantanen's work. In Asian art and philosophy, bamboo symbolizes resilience, humility, and spiritual calm. The fading light evokes impermanence, fragile memory, and the gradual disappearance of imagined, idealized natural settings. Together, the title creates a poetic space suspended between presence and loss, stillness and transformation.